Dissonance Reduction Quotes

#1. You learned this," Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, "from a book."
"Er ... yes?"
He looked back at the picture. "I need to read more.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. There is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.

Dinaw Mengestu

#4. [Before introducing the nominees for best animated film] If you're at the awards party with the guys who made the Lego Movie, now would be a good time to distract them.

Neil Patrick Harris

#5. The search for God means having the courage to set out on a risky path, it means following our restless hearts, ...

Pope Francis

#6. When I was drunk I wanted to get sober and when I was sober I wanted to get drunk,' John L. says; 'I lived that way for years, and I submit to you that's not livin that's a fuckin death-in-life.

David Foster Wallace

#7. The cloud which appeared to the prophet Ezekiel carried with it winds and storms, but it was environed with a golden circle, to teach us that the storms of afflictions, which happen to God's children, are encompassed with brightness and smiling felicity.

Nicolas Caussin

#8. So much for the crusade against drugs ... all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive and lethal substances on the planet, waging war on all rivals, whether they take the form of the Thai domestic tobacco industry or the Colombian cocaine cartels.

Alexander Cockburn