Matthew Woodring Stover Quotes

If you take out the team in teamwork, it's just work. Now who wants that?

Matthew Woodring Stover

Teamwork, Team, Want

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The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.

Matthew Woodring Stover

Use, Truth Is, Greater

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It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

Matthew Woodring Stover

Bad Mood, Existentialism, Easy

Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.992, Del Rey

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It is in the darkest night that the light we are shines brightest

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Night, Light, Shining

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Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. We fight for justice because justice is the fundamental bedrock of civilization: an unjust civilization is built upon sand. It does not long survive a storm.

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Fighting, Civilization, Long

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A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

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Powerful, Metaphor, Enough

Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.379, Del Rey

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Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks.

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Enough, Young, Stills

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A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless. What you call individual rights are merely the cultural fantasy of a failed civilization.

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Pursuit Of Happiness, Rights, Civilization

Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.102, Del Rey

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All true stories end in death.

Matthew Woodring Stover

Stories, Ends, True Story

Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.506, Del Rey

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Each of us is the sum of our scars.

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Scar, Clarity

Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.740, Del Rey

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I am not the same man you found that day! The monster you've created has returned, to kill you!

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Men, Monsters, Found

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A religion that teaches you God is something outside the world--something separate from everything you see, smell, taste, touch, and hear--is nothing but a cheap hustle.

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Smell, Hustle, World

Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.379, Del Rey

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At the heart of its strength is a weakness: a lone candle can hold it back. Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.

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Life, Stars, Heart

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Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.

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Evil, Good And Evil

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This truth: that he, the avatar of light, Supreme Master of the Jedi Order, the fiercest, most impeccable, most devastatingly powerful foe the darkness had ever known... just- didn't- have it.

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Powerful, Light, Order

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When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere

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Solo, Knows, Uncertainty

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Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

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Pain, Moving, Cracks

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With each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins.

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Dark, Winning, Light

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I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.

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Shoes, Stones, Way

Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.36, Del Rey

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Reasons are for peasants.

Matthew Woodring Stover

Reason, Peasants

Matthew Woodring Stover (1998). “Jericho Moon”, N A L Trade

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... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when one was in the middle of being blown to monatomic dust.

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Dust, Obscenity, Middle

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We can each sit and wait to die, from the very day of our births. Those of us who do not do so, choose to ask - and to answer - the two questions that define every conscious creature: What do I want? and What will I do to get it? Which are, finally, only one question: What is my will? Caine teaches us that the answer is always found within our own experience; our lives provide the structure of the question, and a properly phrased question contains its own answer.

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Two, Waiting, Answers

"Blade of Tyshalle" by Matthew Stover, XIV.3, (p. 472), 2001.

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A tale is told of twin boys born to different mothers. One is dark by nature, the other light. One is rich, the other poor. One is harsh, the other gentle. One is forever youthful, the other old before his time. One is mortal. They share no bond of blood or sympathy, but they are twins nonetheless. They each live without ever knowing that they are brothers. They each die fighting the blind god.

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Mother, Brother, Fighting

Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.1046, Del Rey

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Life is more a matter of choosing than knowing. He could never know the eventual destination of his path, but he could always choose in which direction to take each step.

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Knowing, Matter, Path

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Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state

Matthew Woodring Stover

Sacrifice, Firsts, Welfare

Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.102, Del Rey

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