
“We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”
Variant: We all become what we pretend to be.
Source: The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 92, “The Music that Plays” (p. 716)
“We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”
Variant: We all become what we pretend to be.
Source: The Name of the Wind
“You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes—you'll see.”
Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 356
"All Things (Mia ia io)" - Live performance at The Tin Angel, Philadelphia, PA (15 March 1997) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eACEYTQkoLA
Warpaint (1991)
Context: I dreamed I was an animal
In a human world;
Now when I hear big sounds
I cry like a little girl. I'm talking about connections
Between here and there;
All things exist at once
Seems more than we can bear.
Remarks on the 1992 Los Angeles civil disorder, Today show (30 April 1992)
“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book III: The Castle of Llyr (1966), Chapter 1
Source: The Black Cauldron
His Nobel lecture, "How I Discovered Phase Contrast" (11December 1953) http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1953/zernike-lecture.html