Ellen Kushner Quotes

• Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.

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  Beer, People, Needs

  Ellen Kushner (2007). “Swordspoint”, p.333, Spectra

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• A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it's 100 Years of Solitude for an entire generation of American Baby Boomers, and deserves the widest possible audience.

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  Country, Baby, Heart

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• Dream big. Find what makes you happy, and pursue it as you would food and warmth. You deserve it. And if you don’t, then do what it takes to become worthy of it.

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  Dream, Make You Happy, Bigs

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• Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor?

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  Definitions, Sense Of Humor, Honest

  Ellen Kushner (2006). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.109, Spectra

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• Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's household, and throw parties and all. Now...explain to me again just who hates who, and why?

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  Running, Hate, Party

  Ellen Kushner (2006). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.159, Spectra

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• Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos!

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  Invention, Fingertips, Fine

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• Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and to write. It isn't. When it is done honestly, by a skillful writer, fantasy takes us far enough beyond our daily perceptions to open us to the essential realities beneath it. This is the true goal of all art.

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  Moda, Arte, Escritura

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• Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time.

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  Together Again, Together, Firsts

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• Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.

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  Book, Fists, Cushions

  Ellen Kushner (2006). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.12, Spectra

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• Soy el Duque de Riverside. Construyo cosas aquí y prácticamente mantengo la paz y desaliento ciertos comportamientos. Si crees que todo eso se ha conseguido por medios totalmente civiles y legales, es que tienes la cabeza metida en un cubo.

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  Mean, Thinking, Buckets

  "The Privilege of the Sword". Book by Ellen Kushner, 2006.

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• In a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes to the assertion of privilege.

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  Cities, Privilege, Wealth

  Ellen Kushner (2016). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.255, Hachette UK

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• Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.

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  Morning, Cutting, Winter

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• He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless.

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  Availability, Said, Worthless

  Ellen Kushner (2006). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.344, Spectra

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• Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.

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  Real, Dark, Roots

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