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Category Archives: Quote

Myths aren’t lies

By Rhett Soveran | Published: June 4, 2009
Lately, I’ve been hoping that sooner or later I would move away from all that doubt that bogs me down. I figure maybe 30 will be a better time. That’s about all I can figure right now. But I was searching around for a quote by Joseph Campbell and I was sure [...]
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The Rule of Writers

By Rhett Soveran | Published: December 17, 2008
What an ambiguous title. Well, all good writers will tell you that there are no rules for writers. Almost no rules. I mean, for the most part, there aren’t rarely any rules. Except don’t copy other writers, but even that’s up debate. Right? Translation is an art. [...]
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Deathly Hallows Quote

By Rhett Soveran | Published: December 20, 2007
The floor on which he lay seemed to be white, neither warm nor cold, but simply there, a flat, blank something on which to be. – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Kimmy’s Note

By Rhett Soveran | Published: November 22, 2007
for Rhett, you know, money does help, and if I said I was madly in love with you, you’d KNOW I was lying! Thank you! – Kimmy Beach
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Mitch Hedberg Quotes

By Rhett Soveran | Published: November 21, 2007
If you can’t sleep, count sheep. Don’t count endangered animals because you will run out… I bought myself a parrot. The parrot talked. But it did not say, “I’m hungry.” So it died… I’m tired of following my dreams, man, I’m just going to ask them where they are going and meet up with them [...]
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Bonhoeffer

By Rhett Soveran | Published: October 22, 2007
God would have us know that we must live as those who manage our lives without God. The God who is with us is the God who forsakes us. The God who lets us live in the world without the working hypothesis of God is the God before whom we stand continuously. [...]
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