“May the Force be with you.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from A New Hope
“They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from A New Hope
“Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from A New Hope
“Luke: Boy, it's lucky you have these compartments.
Han: I use them for smuggling. I never thought I'd be smuggling myself in them. This is ridiculous.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from A New Hope
“there are two things men have never been able to satisfy: their curiosity and their greed.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from A New Hope
“We’re a couple of shooting stars, Biggs, and we’ll never be stopped.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from A New Hope
“TK-421, why aren't you at your post?”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from A New Hope
“You must try to divorce your actions from conscious control. Try not to focus on anything concrete, visually or mentally. You must let your mind drift, drift; only then you can use the force. You have to enter to a state in which you act on what you sense, not on what you think beforehand. You must cease cognition, relax, stop thinking... let yourself drift... free... free...”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from A New Hope
“He stood on the sand watching the double sunset as first one and then the other of Tatooine's twin suns sank slowly behind the distant range of dunes. In the fading light the sands turned gold, russet, and flaming red-orange before advancing night put the bright colors to sleep for another day.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from A New Hope
Alan Dean Foster
Born place: in New York, New York, The United States
Born date November 18, 1946
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“For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, quote from The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
“Por la escalera, hacia la luz del sol, fueron saliendo el cocinero (que, obviamente, había seguido la vieja costumbre de enfrentarse a un desastre en la mar emborrachándose tan rápida y concienzudamente como le fue posible) […]”
― Tim Powers, quote from On Stranger Tides
“It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and their authors.”
― Alice Steinbach, quote from Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
“I stood there with the rifle in my hands, that I first grasped the hallowness,
the futility of the white man with his gun, standing in front of the unarmed native crowd --- seemingly the leading actor of the piece ;
but in reality I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces behind.
I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.
He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of sahib.
For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives", and so in every crises he has got to do what the "natives" expect of him.”
― George Orwell, quote from A Collection of Essays
“I suddenly saw her quite differently. I saw that she was a person. Not my mother. She had thought it all out. She had wanted to commit suicide. She would never commit suicide. On that night I grew up. Or so I would like to believe.”
― Doris Lessing, quote from Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta
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