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Quotes from The Red Magician — Lisa Goldstein

born 1953 United States

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Your father was a very wise man. But you cannot acquire his wisdom by pretending to have it already.

The Red Magician (1982)

She felt that she had seen beneath the mask of the world, and she could not quite believe in that mask again.

The Red Magician (1982)

You think you can be as heroic as he was, simply by dying. But he doesn’t take courage to die. That’s easy. It takes courage to live.

The Red Magician (1982)

A magician’s business is with words. He may use other things to help him along—amulets and so forth—but it is within words that the power lies. To choose the wrong words may mean death. And so magicians learn, from the first, to use as few words as possible, to answer as few questions as we can.

The Red Magician (1982)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lisa Goldstein (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.