Audition For The Fox Quotes

There's a fine line between stubborn and stupid.

All creatures that thrived on pride held in their hearts a deep and terrible fear.

We are not a part of any story but our own. The story moves on without us and if we stayed to see how it ended, well...we'd leave our own stories behind.

There are indeed ways to bring justice to the evil and wicked that does not destroy one's soul in the process.

Those in power often only ever see their opponents as worthy when those opponents wield a power similar to the kind they hold themselves; they don't ever think to look for power in the forms they do not know.

But as Nesi learns, sometimes you just need to act, weather you're ready or not. Sometimes, you build your own tomorrow, and if you're lucky and work hard and remember to chuckle once in a while, you can even get there.

The future happens because we make it happen, because we choose for our best tomorrow to come.

To rise above evil while bringing evil low would indeed be a challenge.

Just remember. Life is a story. Stories are answers to questions you learn by living. What is the question you will try to answer with your life?

But when those above you punch down, crushing you, smaller and smaller, enough to make you think your life is the joke? No greater cruelty in the world exists, as far as this jester is concerned.

What is it about trickery that makes you so damned wise?" A little smile broke free of the dark, canines gleaming silver in an arc of moonlight. "We'll call this our first lesson, then, little kit. If you are to trick others, you must be honest with yourself about why you're doing it. Otherwise tricks fall apart, becoming ineffective and bumbling. Or worse, they become cruel for cruelty's sake. I refuse to let that happen. There are far too many of my siblings who endorse that already.

And so the politicians know who is doing the criticizing, and with whom to settle scores. Former Senator John Kerry made sure that Sam Fox never got his ambassadorship to Belgium. Fox was disciplined for having donated to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The government subjected Frank VanderSloot and Catherine Engelbrecht to multiple audits as punishment for their conservative work. The IRS segregated out Tea Party applications and put them on hold as a penalty for opposing Barack Obama.

A liberal front group called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) actually sent a letter to the head of the FCC asking for Fox’s broadcast licenses to be revoked.16 Do we have any other examples of the Obama administration using a supposedly neutral government agency to go after its critics and political opponents? That’s right: President Obama’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has clearly gone after groups that worked against the administration’s agenda—and individuals, too! I myself got an audit in 2011, which I’m sure had nothing at all to do with my frequent statements on television opposing President Obama’s reelection.

You not only threw down the wicked, you did so by lifting up the brightness of those around you.

There is much good we can do together and many more joys that exist tomorrow than do today.

No, I don't feel ready at all. But I don't think I ever will. Maybe it's what I've been missing the whole time, because...yeah, there has been exactly no point in all this that I've felt ready. Where answers arrived, and clarity struck, and you put a crown on my head or something and said, 'Congratulations, you did it!' I guess I just...have reached a point where someone has to do something, and if I'm not that someone, nothing will happen and nothing will get better, or have the hope of getting better. So, no, I'm sure as hells not ready. Which is why I know it's time to start moving anyway.

I still think we need tricksters to tweak the nose of tyrants. I still think we need loving, inclusive, intersectional communities that can hold space for all those who lack such a thing, and embrace them in that held space and into community. I still think there will always be a part of me that feels like Nesi: too young, too inexperienced, too anxious while also wildly passionate, eager to help, and desperate to fulfill a purpose. And I still think stories are some of the best tools we have in the world to save each other, through joy, shared experience, human connection, and the healing power of art.

Because middling art is the most inspiring kind of art! When something is awful, it’s a joke; a bad piece of art makes people talk, sure, but it’s always in scorn or derision. No one experiences truly ghastly art and wants to improve it. And the same with truly beautiful work. Those heights of achievement are exquisite and capture something ecstatic in the universe, yes. But if one measures themselves against greatness, they’ll always be upset at themselves for not matching it, because few do. But middling art? Art that has strong qualities while still not quite capturing greatness? That is the best kind of art, my friend. And why I love your poetry and that you write it. Because a very bad poet will see your art and wish to try harder. A very good poet will see your art and try to be better. And someone who has never made any art at all will see your art and know it’s possible for them to try, too. For my money, that last is the most valuable. We could all stand to create more than we destroy, especially these days. Even if it is middling. So take heart, Teor. You may be the most important person in this room, because no matter what you do, it’s going to be inspiring.

Just remember. Life is a story. Stories are answers to questions you learn by living.

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