Matthew Woodring Stover Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.”
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“It is in the darkest night that the light we are shines brightest”
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“When I write a book, I put everything I have into it; so the more I have, the more the books become. Some people get freaked out by them: mostly the people who believe, mistakenly, that fantasy is about escaping reality. To them I say: If you have a problem with reality, you should be spending more time dealing with your life, and less time reading popcorn fantasy.”
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“With each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins.”
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“Each of us is the sum of our scars.”
-- Matthew Woodring StoverSource : Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.740, Del Rey
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“I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.”
-- Matthew Woodring StoverSource : Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.36, Del Rey
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“A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless. What you call individual rights are merely the cultural fantasy of a failed civilization.”
-- Matthew Woodring StoverSource : Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.102, Del Rey
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“Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state”
-- Matthew Woodring StoverSource : Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.102, Del Rey
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“Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.”
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“A religion that teaches you God is something outside the world--something separate from everything you see, smell, taste, touch, and hear--is nothing but a cheap hustle.”
-- Matthew Woodring StoverSource : Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.379, Del Rey
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“All true stories end in death.”
-- Matthew Woodring StoverSource : Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.506, Del Rey
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“Reasons are for peasants.”
-- Matthew Woodring StoverSource : Matthew Woodring Stover (1998). “Jericho Moon”, N A L Trade
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“We can each sit and wait to die, from the very day of our births. Those of us who do not do so, choose to ask--and to answer--the two questions that define every conscious creature: What do I want? and What will I do to get it? Which are, finally, only one question: What is my will? Caine teaches us that the answer is always found within our own experience; our lives provide the structure of the question, and a properly phrased question contains its own answer.”
-- Matthew Woodring StoverSource : "Blade of Tyshalle" by Matthew Stover, XIV.3, (p. 472), 2001.
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“A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.”
-- Matthew Woodring StoverSource : Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.379, Del Rey
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“When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint.”
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“Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.”
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“At the heart of its strength is a weakness: a lone candle can hold it back. Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.”
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“Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.”
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“If you take out the team in teamwork, it's just work. Now who wants that?”
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“The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.”
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“Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. We fight for justice because justice is the fundamental bedrock of civilization: an unjust civilization is built upon sand. It does not long survive a storm.”
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“... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when one was in the middle of being blown to monatomic dust.”
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“It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.”
-- Matthew Woodring StoverSource : Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.992, Del Rey
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“The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins. It always wins because it is everywhere. It is in the wood that burns in your hearth, and in the kettle on the fire; it is under your chair and under your table and under the sheets on your bed. Walk in the midday sun, and the dark is with you, attached to the soles of your feet. The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.”
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“I am not the same man you found that day! The monster you've created has returned, to kill you!”
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“I don't have to stop you. All I have to do is slow you down." -Ganner Rhysode”
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“Everything I tell you is a lie." -Vergere”
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“Oh, sure. What's this supposed to teach me?" "Is it what the teacher teaches? Or what the students learns?" "What's the difference?" "That is, itself, a question worth considering, yes?" -Jacen & Vergere”
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“When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere”
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