N.D. Wilson Quotes - Page 3

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• What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog what's dead already, and don't love a lady unless she loves you first.

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  Dog, Love You, Winning

  N. D. Wilson (2009). “Dandelion Fire (100 Cupboards Book 2)”, p.375, Yearling

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• Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.

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  Dark, Past, Forever

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.164, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Henry York, aka Whimpering Child, aka WC (hair sample included), is hereby identified as Enemy, Hazard, and Human Mishap to all faeren in all districts, in all ways, and in all worlds.

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  Children, Aka, Hair

  N. D. Wilson (2009). “Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards”, p.294, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be swallowed by it, willing to be broken, torn out of the flesh, but able to return to it. Someone must be able to shatter the tragic from within and exit into comedy, able to rip a hole so wide that a train of souls, a parade, could follow after, banging drums and throwing candy as they strolled into the sun.

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  Rip, Turtles, Broken

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• Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.

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  Stories, Flesh, Catechism

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• Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure and lovely, where nothing ever gets muddy (including the essence of mud.)

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  Sorry, Plato, Philosophy

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• You fainted,' Tom said. Reg coughed. No, I didn't,' he said. 'Women faint. People afraid of needles faint. Men black out.

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  Men, People, Black

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• Do not slip into writing for the mind and the mind alone. In other words, do not play merely upon our ability to reason. And do not focus only on visuals. Write for the whole person.

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  Writing, Play, Focus

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• Columbus was the first to come to the east. Vikings don't count, and neither do all the people who were standing on the beaches and waving when he got here.

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  Beach, People, East

  N. D. Wilson (2008). “Leepike Ridge”, p.186, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I am here to paint you a picture of the world I see

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  World, Paint

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• Spring is worth the wait. Life is worth the death.

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  Spring, Waiting, Life Is

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• Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder away.

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  Philosophy, Opiates, Wonder

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• Hold your tongue if you'd like to keep it." - Jaques

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  Tongue, Ifs

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• Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.

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  Years, Skating, Watches

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World”, p.14, Thomas Nelson

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• The world is R-rated, and no one's checking IDs

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  World

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• In the Darwinian world, self-preservation is the ultimate shiny good.

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  Self, World, Preservation

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• Descartes, the Frenchman, had little trouble knowing that he existed.

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  Knowing, Littles, Trouble

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World”, p.13, Thomas Nelson

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• If you knew the meaning of life, would you necessarily like it?

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  Meaning Of Life, Ifs

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World”, p.14, Thomas Nelson

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• Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother's newest fridge, but a number doesn't really describe his age.

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  Mother, Numbers, Age

  N. D. Wilson (2008). “Leepike Ridge”, p.2, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules of poetry for creative effect, this only works when you know and respect the rule you are breaking. If you have never heard of the rules you are breaking, you have no right to do so, and you are likely to come off like a buffoon or a barbarian. Breaking rules, using slang and archaic language can be effective, but it is just as likely to give you an audience busy with wincing.

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  Giving, Creative, Lapses

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• God's big enough that small doesn't matter.

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  Matter, Enough, Bigs

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• The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty.

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  Rising, Truth Is, Scales

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc

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