“You’ve gotta respect everyone’s beliefs." No, you don’t. That’s what gets us in trouble. Look, you have to acknowledge everyone’s beliefs, and then you have to reserve the right to go: "That is fucking stupid. Are you kidding me?" I acknowledge that you believe that, that’s great, but I’m not going to respect it. I have an uncle that believes he saw Sasquatch. We do not believe him, nor do we respect him!”
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“The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.”
― Dune
― Dune
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“In the end, we'll all become stories.”
― Moral Disorder and Other Stories
― Moral Disorder and Other Stories
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