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3. Your favorite quote
I have many. I could choose one of the ones which are tattooed on me, partially or in full ("[First-person narrators can’t die, so as long as we keep telling the story of our own lives we’re safe.] Ha bloody fucking ha."; "Sometimes, when you can't feel anything, you'd rather feel pain than nothing."; "The trick [William Potter] is not minding that it hurts."), some of the things Lawrence said ("Complex men who knew how self-sacrifice uplifted the redeemer and cast down the bought[...]"), some which are simply useful ("The rightness of a thing isn’t determined by the amount of courage it takes."), and some which are simply very beautiful ("The touch of autumn struck from his youth that cosmic sadness, which time will tame like the bite of spring.”).
I don't know what my favourite quote is. There are a lot of wonderfully-arranged words in the lexicon and I would not like to try to pare them all down to one simple set of instructions for fear of leaving something else out. ("In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.") I don't necessarily believe that words have quite the level of power that people like Neil Gaiman ascribe to them, but I do think there's too much variety to narrow it down.
I have many. I could choose one of the ones which are tattooed on me, partially or in full ("[First-person narrators can’t die, so as long as we keep telling the story of our own lives we’re safe.] Ha bloody fucking ha."; "Sometimes, when you can't feel anything, you'd rather feel pain than nothing."; "The trick [William Potter] is not minding that it hurts."), some of the things Lawrence said ("Complex men who knew how self-sacrifice uplifted the redeemer and cast down the bought[...]"), some which are simply useful ("The rightness of a thing isn’t determined by the amount of courage it takes."), and some which are simply very beautiful ("The touch of autumn struck from his youth that cosmic sadness, which time will tame like the bite of spring.”).
I don't know what my favourite quote is. There are a lot of wonderfully-arranged words in the lexicon and I would not like to try to pare them all down to one simple set of instructions for fear of leaving something else out. ("In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.") I don't necessarily believe that words have quite the level of power that people like Neil Gaiman ascribe to them, but I do think there's too much variety to narrow it down.