A defeated race often uses its cultural supremacy to cover the shame of defeat.
“When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.”
― A Storm of Swords
― A Storm of Swords
“The Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses.To explain — since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation — every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake. The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.”
― A Storm of Swords
― A Storm of Swords
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
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