N.D. Wilson Quotes - Page 3

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• Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.

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  Narrative, Rhetoric

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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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• If God gives you (or makes you) a joke, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Laugh.)
  If God gives you an obstacle, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Climb it. Then laugh.)
  If God gives you more profound hardship, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Climb it. Then laugh. Exhibit A: His Son.)

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  Son, Giving, Profound

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.41, Thomas Nelson

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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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• May my living be grace to those behind me.

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  Grace, May, Behinds

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.85, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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• Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it.

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  Doctors, Elephants, Magic

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• Here Spring just grows and greens and warms, spreading life, wrapping us in her arms, until suddenly we realize that she's not a girl anymore. She's a woman. A woman named Summer.

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  Girl, Summer, Spring

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World”, p.60, Thomas Nelson

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

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  Tongue, Ifs

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

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  Matter, Enough, Bigs

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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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• 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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