Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 143
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home?”
“The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it.”
“Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men.”
“The significance of a myth is not easily to be pinned on paper by analytical reasoning.”
“For myth is alive at once and in all its parts, and dies before it can be dissected.”
“There was once a little man called Niggle, who had a long journey to make.”
“No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes.”
“Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.”
“A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.”
“All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.”
“The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is.”
“He wanted to be a passenger on anything that was going anywhere, but most of all on a ship.”
“The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?”
“Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective.”
“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.”