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Joshua Kelm
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“But sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a person who is in the process of changing.”
“willfully ignorant, passionately believing in something because she surrounded herself with people who also passionately believed in the same thing. He knew the type, now—those who found it easier to listen to people who reinforced what they already thought, rather than actually considering the opinions of those who didn’t.”
― An Echo of Things to Come
― An Echo of Things to Come
“Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“Be as you wish to seem, an ancient had said. It was good advice. Because acting brave and being so are very much the same thing.”
― The Given Sacrifice
― The Given Sacrifice
“A virtue is something that is valuable even if it gives you nothing. A virtue persists without payment or compensation. Positive thinking is great. Vital. Useful. But it has to remain so even if it gets you nothing. Belief, truth, honor … if these exist only to get you something, you’ve missed the storming point.”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth
“Perhaps the question isn’t ‘What use is art?’” Wit mused. “Perhaps even that simple question misses the point. It’s like asking the use of having hands, or walking upright, or growing hair. Art is part of us, Kaladin. That’s the use; that’s the reason. It exists because on some fundamental level we need it. Art exists to be made.”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth
Joshua Kelm’s 2024 Year in Books
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