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Quest Quotes
Words on quests, journeys, and the search for purpose.
These quest quotes range from the personal, describing life as a quest to overcome loneliness, to the literary, discussing how quest narratives like 'The Odyssey' shape storytelling. Together they frame the quest as both an inner and outer Journey.
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- Epic
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Epic stories, especially 'quest narratives' like 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,' are brilliant structures for storytelling. The quest lends itself to episodic storytelling.
- Being
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Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.
- Follow
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I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.
- Film
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'Galaxy Quest' is a fantastic film.
- Pretty
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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
- Blessings
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I was told that Ganesha sat between Lakshmi and Saraswati. My quest to attain the blessings of both goddesses explains my physique.
- Right
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