for a purpose without reason
~ Donald Kingsbury
One cannot take a coward on dangerous missions or trust one’s fortune to a fool. How then are cowards and fools to be employed?
A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.
A man who never makes mistakes has long since ceased to do anything new. A man who is always making mistakes is a doomed man with swollen ambitions. But he who judiciously salts success with mistake is the rapid learner.
He had the beginning of wrinkles and the easy manner of one who has already made his mistakes.
Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was.
Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known.
Whosoever insists on winning must play at trivial games, no interesting victory is ever assured.
[O]ld enough to be wise yet young enough to be willing to partake in an arduous crusade.
