Quotes by Diane Duane - Page 1

Belief made no difference to the truth.
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Belief
Differences
Made
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Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.
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Book
Potato Chips
Reading
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Do it now and avoid the June rush! Fear death by water!
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Fear Of Death
June
Water
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A little science. A little magic. A little chicken soup.
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Littles
Magic
Soup
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Honey, have you seen your sister?” She’s on Jupiter, Mom.
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Mom
Honey
Jupiter
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How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!
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Noise
Universe
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Dear Artificer, I’ve blown my quanta and gone to the Good Place!
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Dear
Gone
Quantum
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All the drawing lacks is the final touch: To add eyes to the dragon
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Dragons
Drawing
Eye
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The Spear in the Other’s heart is the spear in your own: you are he.
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Heart
Spears
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You walk on water, and complain that you can't find anything to drink!
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Complaining
Drink
Water
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So rage, proud Power: fail again! And see my blood teach Death to die!
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Blood
Failing
Proud
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She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so.
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Staring
Tree
Walks
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Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.
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Technology
New Technology
Wells
Wizards
Affects
Business Technology Always
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Doctors couldn't be everywhere, so the Lord invented Vulcans. I thought you knew.
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Doctors
Lord
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It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow
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Kind
Poor
World
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There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.
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Lying
Stronger
Writing
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I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one.
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May
Novel
Stars
Would Be
New One
Star Trek
Trek
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Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.
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Happiness
Wisdom
Mistake
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Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount.
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Sometimes
Speak
Voice
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It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image.
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Children
Generations
World
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But even in your world it’s a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any odds… get a Mother.
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Fighting
Hero
Mother
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What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.
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Forty
Found
Thirteen
Trying
Years
Forty Years
Pass
Readers
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A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past." "It's called a 'prophecy,'" Urruah said. "You may have heard of the concept.
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Legends
May
Past
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My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.
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Children
Grandchildren
Introducing
Only Child
Passion
First Generation
Readers
Whom
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And we will cause it to be well-made, this Sacrifice. You, young and never loving; I, old and never loved. Such a Song the Sea will never have seen.
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Sacrifice
Sea
Song
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Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, point to where you were going: but when they suddenly vanish, never dismiss the possibility of flight.
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Flight
Possibility
Snow
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"Don't be afraid to make corrections," Picchu said. "Don't be afraid to lend a hand." She fell silent, seeming to think for a moment. "And don't look down."
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Hands
Looks
Thinking
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You do have the idea of being ‘just good friends?’” He gave her a sideways look. “For so high and honorable an estate,” Roshaun said, “ ‘just’ seems a poor modifier to choose.
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Good Friend
Ideas
Looks
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A warp," Nita whispered. "A tunnel through space-time. Are you a white hole?" It stopped bobbing, stared at her as if she had said something derogatory. (Do I look like a hole?)
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Space
Tunnels
White
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Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.
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Promise
Stuff
Want
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(True,) the white hole said. (My name is Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni-) and at the same time he went flickering through a pattern of colors that was evidently the visual translation.
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Color
Names
White
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What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.
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People
Realizing
Teens
Thinking
Unwise
Hopes
Showing
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The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.
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Age
Choices
Issues
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If death is truly a curse,' Spock said, as soberly as some power pronouncing a hundred years of sleep, but with a glint of private, serene humor in his eyes. 'There is little logic in condemning something one has not experienced...or does not remember experiencing.
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Eye
Sleep
Years
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You should know how terrible a power belief is, especially in the wrong hands -- and how do you tell which hands are wrong? Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow.
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Believe
Hands
Way
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"Power," Nita heard her father say behind her. "Creation. Forces from before time. This is--this business is for saints, not children!" "Even saints have to start somewhere," Carl said softly. "And it's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image."
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Children
Father
Saint
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Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the ancient-most tale of the Sea's sending: singing the tragedy, singing the joy unending This is our shame- this is the whole Ocean's glory: this is the Song of the Twelve. Hark to the story! Hearken, and bring it to pass: swift lest the sorrow long ago laid to it's rest devour us tomarrow!
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Ocean
Long Ago
Song
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"Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you need a hug. It's dangerous, which is why it makes people so nervous. Virtue has its own agenda, and believe me, it's not always yours. The word itself means strength, power. And when it gets loose, you'd better watch out." "Something bad might happen..." "Impossible. But possibly something painful."
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Believe
Mean
Real
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The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life - how terrible! Nita gulped for control as she remembered Fred's word of just this morning, an eternity ago. And this was what being a wizard was about. Keeping terrible things from happening, even when it hurts. Not just power, or control of what ordinary people couldn't control, or delight in being able to make strange things happen. Those were the side effects - not the reason, the purpose.
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Morning
Hurt
Live Life
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But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again. "People forget that robes were street clothes once... and still are, in a lot of places. And halos are to that fierce air of innocence what speech balloons in comics are to the sound of the voice itself. Shorthand. But most people just see an old symbol and don't bother looking behind it for the meaning. Sainthood starts to look old-fashioned, unattainable... even repellent. Actually, you can see it all around, once you learn to spot it.
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Air
Clothes
Voice
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