- Ring
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- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is a game like 'No Man's Sky,' really? A set of symbols that specify a world but do not themselves constitute it. A rich grammar that's inert without the trigger of human attention.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prediction just means you saw where the world might be going: ho-hum. Influence, though - ah. Influence, direct and acknowledged, means you actually steered the world, even if only a tiny bit.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.
- Darkest
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Waking Dark' is about what happens when something awakens a town's darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the character talks and moves, the world around him is slowly revealed, just like dollying a camera back for a wider look at things. So all my stories start with a character, and that character introduces setting, culture, conflict, government, economy... all of it, through his or her eyes.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fantasy is my genre and my home in the writing world. I consider it the biggest writing room in all literature, where there are literally no boundaries at all.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020