“If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.”

— John Steinbeck

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John Steinbeck 366

American writer 1902–1968

Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer

The Visitor (2002)
Context: You will divide the sheep from the goats and you will encourage the one and shepherd the other. You always had a leaning that way. Each of you will find the fight that suites yourself and your being. You will triumph, suffer, weep, rejoice, possibly die... If you die another will rise up in your name, if you don't die, you'll live an extremely long life. You are my angels, for whom an almost heaven waits... Your work will be long, however, long and hard before you can rest in it.

The small god in Ch. 44 : the visitor

“When the enemy isn't fighting you on his territory, you find yourself fighting him on yours.”

Brig. Gen. Eran Ortal (1971)

Source: Dado Center Journal vol. 6, January 2016, https://www.idf.il/media/11156/ortal.pdf

“The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

“Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Echoes at Dawn

“Suck it up. This is the life you chose for yourself, so buck up and deal.”

Lauren Myracle (1969) American children's writer

“Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Variant: You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?
Source: Either/Or: A Fragment of Life