Ellen Kushner Quotes
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Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and to write. It isn't. When it is done honestly, by a skillful writer, fantasy takes us far enough beyond our daily perceptions to open us to the essential realities beneath it. This is the true goal of all art.
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I do not make the rules. This annoys me, and so I comfort myself by breaking them.
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He had no reason to want to avenge Horn, and for Applethorpe no vengeance would ever be enough. It was natural for him to want to hurt the man who had been the instrument of his first adult grief; natural, but not right.
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Every man lives at swordspoint.
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It was not for Halliday to judge another's personal relationships: everyone in the city was strange, if you looked deeply enough.
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He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless.
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Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time.
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Dream big. Find what makes you happy, and pursue it as you would food and warmth. You deserve it. And if you don’t, then do what it takes to become worthy of it.
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He had nothing against debauchery in the abstract, but he was particular about the details.
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What was it about scholarship and learning, he wondered, that seemed to wither the hearts of University men, leaving them incapable of loving anything as imperfect and fallible as an actual human being?
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It was strange to see that no matter what color the clothing first appeared—and they were all hues, from earthy copper and garnet to the blue of sky and shadow—in different light all turned to some shade of green, as if there were a third plane to the cloth’s weaving beyond the warp and weft.
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Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's household, and throw parties and all. Now...explain to me again just who hates who, and why?
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She is all that is gracious, Her spirit is comely, The work of her hands is fair.
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I let the insults go by. A good swordsman doesn't pay attention to words in a fight.