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  1. Terry Pratchett _ Equal Rites

    It is well known that stone can think, because the whole of electronics is based on that fact, but in some universes men spend ages looking for other intelligences in the sky without once looking under their feet. That is because they've got the time-span all wrong. From stone's point of view the universe is hardly created and mountain ranges are bouncing up and down like organ-stops while continents zip backward and forward in general high spirits, crashing into each other from the sheer joy of momentum and getting their rocks off. It is going to be quite some time before stone notices its disfiguring skin disease and starts to scratch, which is just as well.
    book-quotehumortimeperspective

  2. Terry Pratchett _ Men at Arms: The Play

    Silverfish looked down."Oh. Are you a dwarf?"Cuddy gave him a blank stare."Are you a giant?" He said."Me? Of course not!""Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes.
    book-quoteperspectiveperceptiondwarf

  3. Roger Zelazny _ Lord of Light

    You are a fool to speak of last great battles, Sam, for the last great battle is always the next one.
    book-quoteperspectivebattlekali

  4. Raymond E. Feist _ The King's Buccaneer

    My ancestors were conquerors, though now they are heroes in our history." Glancing at Amos, he said, "But we wrote the history.
    book-quotehistoryperspective

  5. Raymond E. Feist _ Exile's Return

    Have you ever wronged a man . . . just to do him harm? Or have you always had a reason?'Kaspar answered quickly. 'There was always a reason.''There you have it,' said Samas as he sat down. He motioned for Kaspar to fetch over a cup of water for him. 'You would never look at yourself as "evil" no matter what the other fellow thought of what you did. It's in our nature. And that's the great secret of evil. It is never viewed as evil by those who perpetrate the evil.
    book-quoteperspectivenature-of-evil

  6. Raymond E. Feist _ Exile's Return

    He knew there was only a slight difference between an armed guard and an escort, but sometimes that difference separated the honored and the condemned.
    book-quoteperspective

  7. Raymond E. Feist _ King of Foxes

    Now he wondered what use it would be. For Kaspar's death would not bring back his father, Elk's Call at Dawn, or his mother, Whisper of the Night Wind. His brother, Hand of the Sun, and his little sister Miliana would remain dead. The only time he would hear the voice of his grandfather, Laughter in His Eyes, would be in his memory. Nothing would change. No farmer outside Krondor would suddenly stand up in wonder and say, "A wrong has been righted." No boot-maker in Roldem would look up from his bench and say, "A people has been avenged.
    book-quoteperspectiverevenge

  8. Raymond E. Feist _ King of Foxes

    A man makes choices," Tal said."True, but what choices a man makes depends on what choices he is offered.
    book-quoteperspectivechoices-and-consequences

  9. Raymond E. Feist _ Shards of a Broken Crown

    History is written by victors," said Duko. "But I have little use for history. It is the future with which I am concerned.
    book-quoteperspectivevictors

  10. Bret Easton Ellis _ Glamorama

    The better you look, the more you see
    book-quoteinequalityperspectivevanity

  11. Paulo Coelho _ The Alchemist

    The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought. Leafing through the pages, he found a story about Narcissus.The alchemist knew the legend of Narcissus, a youth who knelt daily beside a lake to contemplate his own beauty. He was so fascinated by himself that, one morning, he fell into the lake and drowned. At the spot where he fell, a flower was born, which was called the narcissus.But this was not how the author of the book ended the story.He said that when Narcissus died, the goddesses of the forest appeared and found the lake, which had been fresh water, transformed into a lake of salty tears.'Why do you weep?' the goddesses asked.'I weep for Narcissus," the lake replied.'Ah, it is no surprise that you weep for Narcissus,' they said, 'for though we always pursued him in the forest, you alone could contemplate his beauty close at hand.''But... was Narcissus beautiful?' the lake asked.'Who better than you to know that?' the goddesses asked in wonder. 'After all, it was by your banks that he knelt each day to contemplate himself!'The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said:'I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.''What a lovely story,' the alchemist thought.
    book-quoteperspectivevanitymale-beauty

  12. Nicole Krauss _ Man Walks Into a Room

    It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or not: maybe enough time, would pass that eventually he would look back on his life, all of it, as a series of events both logical and continuous.
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