“Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know.”
Source: Chocolat
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Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-isle-2003 of The Isle (31 January 2003)
Reviews, Three star reviews
“I just tell people what they already know but are afraid to admit to themselves.”
Jo, Chapter 25, p. 203
Source: 2009, Safe Haven (2010)
“Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.”
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“What we usually mean by fate is what we least understand, that is to say, ourselves”
Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)
Context: What we usually mean by fate is what we least understand, that is to say, ourselves, that subversive, unknown individual constantly plotting against us, whom, estranged and alienated but still bowing with disgust before his might, we call, for the of simplicity, fate.
“What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?”
PENN Address (2004)
Social Dreaming of the Frin in David G. Hartwell (ed.) Year's Best Fantasy 3, p. 172 (Originally published at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magazine_of_Fantasy_%26_Science_Fiction October/November 2002)
