Tariq/Stereotypes

"When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness." - Tecumseh of the Shawnee "Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?" - Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned "We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of our self." - Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf "I love mankind, but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it." - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan "There are five possibilities. 1: Adam fell. 2: he was pushed. 3: he jumped. 4: he only looked over the edge, and one look silenced him. 5: nothing worth mentioning happened to Adam..." - Robert Bringhurst "Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten." - Terry Pratchett, Mort "Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what." - Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses