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Daniel Wallace QUOTES

1 " You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you. "

― Daniel Wallace , The Kings and Queens of Roam

2 " He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes. "

― Daniel Wallace , The Kings and Queens of Roam

3 " It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true. "

― Daniel Wallace

4 " Magic is dangerous: it's neither good nor bad, right nor wrong; it can be both a blessing and a curse. It takes strength, the strength of a man, to make the magic his own, to make it serve him, and not the other way around. "

― Daniel Wallace , The Kings and Queens of Roam

5 " You’re not necessarily supposed to believe it…You’re just supposed to believe in it. "

― Daniel Wallace , Big Fish

6 " In a moment, everything can change and in a moment, you can change everything. "

― Daniel Wallace

7 " They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up. "

― Daniel Wallace

8 " He believed the stars were wishes, and that one day they would all come true. "

― Daniel Wallace , Big Fish

9 " But that reminds me – and stop me if you've heard this one – of the day Jesus was watching the gates for St. Peter. Anyway, Jesus is giving him a hand one day when a man walks shuffling up to the path of Heaven.
“ ‘What have you done to enter the kingdom of Heaven?’ Jesus asks him.
“And the man says, ‘Well, not much really. I’m just a poor carpenter who led a quiet life. The only remarkable thing about my life was my son.’
“ ‘Your son?’ Jesus asks, getting interested.
“ ‘Yes, he was quite a son,’ the man says. ‘He went through a most unusual birth and later a great transformation. He also became quite well known throughout the world and is still loved by many today.’
“Christ looks at the man, embraces him tightly, and says ‘Father, father!’
“And the old man hugs him back and says, ‘Pinocchio? "

― Daniel Wallace

10 " ...because in my mind—in the memory that has lodged itself imperturbably in my mind, my father resembles Abraham Lincoln, a man with long arms and deep pockets and dark eyes... "

― Daniel Wallace , Big Fish

11 " This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go. "

― Daniel Wallace , Big Fish

12 " A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself. "

― Daniel Wallace , The Kings and Queens of Roam

13 " You're a good man," Fang said. "You're the last good man in this whole town. All the good that could be squeezed out of this forsaken place was used to make you. That's why you're so small, my friend: there just wasn't that much left." Fang laughed. "and that's why you can see us, you know, and nobody else can. You see everybody, even that lumberjack. "

― Daniel Wallace , The Kings and Queens of Roam

14 " How do you know when it's me?"
"Your footsteps are apologetic?"
"What does that mean?"
She turned, smiling wiping her hands on her long, black skirt. "It doesn't mean anything," she said. "Everybody else here just does what they want to do and doesn't think twice about it. But you're never sure. "

― Daniel Wallace , The Kings and Queens of Roam

15 " It is necessary to lie to achieve anything of value. And a skilled liar is nearly impossible to detect. "

― Daniel Wallace

16 " Non importa, la storia cambia sempre. Come tutte le storie, del resto. Tanto per cominciare nessuna storia è vera, i ricordi della gente hanno una sfumatura particolare, ne parlano al mattino perché, durante la notte, hanno ricordato qualcosa che non è mai accaduto, una bella storia da condividere con gli altri, un nuovo travisamento, una bugia inventata ogni giorno "

― Daniel Wallace , Big Fish

17 " When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal. "

― Daniel Wallace , Big Fish

18 " Shortcuts of the expense of training will make you a weaker Jedi "

― Daniel Wallace

19 " Se sentía solo con su vida solitaria, pero a veces la soledad era aún mayor cuando estaba rodeado de personas que no cesaban de exigirle cosas. Necesitaba un respiro. "

― Daniel Wallace , Big Fish

20 " Dreams are what keep a man going. "

― Daniel Wallace , Big Fish