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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #dice




Confession time: I doubt I would ever have picked up one of Marjorie’s books, had I not met her in person. The reason is they’re categorized as Romances, which is where they are shelved in bookstores. Though I have no justification for avoiding it, the romance section is an area in bookstores I seldom wander into. Her novels also have traditional-looking romance book covers, which are occasionally a bit off-putting to us mighty manly men. Then again, who knows? I don’t carry many biases where good storytelling is concerned. I’m willing to find it anywhere, as too many of my friends will attest, when I try to drag them to wonderful movies that they aren’t eager to go to, simply because they fall under the chick-flick rubric. So, in any case, I’m glad I did meet Marjorie Liu in person, because it would have been a shame to miss out on the work of an author this talented due to whatever degree of cultural prejudices I might still possess. I trust you who read this won’t make the same mistake.


Bill Willingham


#prejudices #romance-novels #stereotypes #storytelling #men

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.


Thomas Fuller


#cowardice #cowardice

Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale.


Steve Hockensmith


#pride-and-prejudice #zombies #zombies

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport -- in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy." [Quoted in Socialism and Foreign Policy and War and the Liberal Conscience]


George Bernard Shaw


#fighting #foreign-policy #literature #narrow-mindedness #prejudice

I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.


Jane Austen


#mr-darcy #pride-and-prejudice #respect

Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.


Marian Anderson


#because #brushing #cheek #feel #find

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.


Aristotle


#braves #cowardice #death #does #escape

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.


Mary Astell


#design #due #excite #government #hearers

I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.


Veronica Roth


#weakness #cowardice

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.


Ambrose Bierce


#fear #cowardice