Best Tricksters Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Wouldn't the crow, that ubiquitous trickster, make a more compelling and accurate national symbol for the United States than the bald eagle?”

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Book:War Dances

Source: War Dances

“Sometimes, no matter how hard we try for someone and hope that they will get better in time – they never do. Abusive relationships shouldn’t have a key to your chambers of heart. Hold your key and keep it close. Don’t end up getting addicted to such pain or human beings – for that matter. You might not be Thor but they can surely be Loki & hold you prisoner to their trickster nature.”

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Book:Red Sugar, No More

Source: Red Sugar, No More

“It is in times like these that we face the most cunning of tricksters. We might even find a trickster in the seat of power.”

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Book:Catching the Light

Source: Catching the Light

“Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.”

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Book:Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

“The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo.”

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Author:Derek Tangye

“Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the latter's effortless wit, and their mutual inventiveness in work that defies category.”

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Author:Vince Aletti

“Memory is, of course, a trickster.”

Courses Memories Tricksters

Author:Frances Mayes

“Revolt in whatever way we want, with the spontaneity of the London rioters, with the certainty and willingness to die of religious fundamentalists or with the twinkling mischief of the trickster... Take to the streets, together, with the understanding that the feeling that you aren't being heard or seen or represented isn't psychosis; it's government policy.”

“If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.”

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Book:Pilgrimage

Source: Pilgrimage

“To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for; This is to be a trickster; and to filch Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth, Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend, You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me, Is what, when done with a less dainty grace, Plain folks call "Theft.”

“...but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin.”

Lying Sin Healthy Tales Vengeance Hybrid Tricksters

Author:Gregory Maguire

“Primitive societies, or social groupings, had shamans, and some of them even more recent in time. Shamans were tricksters. There was a tradition of the trickster, and the trickster was a clown, a humorous fellow. His task was to trick the gods, to humor the gods into laughing, so that there was access to the divine - because laughter is a moment when we are completely ourselves.”

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Author:George Carlin

“The poor wretches have convinced themselves that they are going to be immortal and live for all time, by worshipping that crucified sophist and living under his laws...they receive these doctrines by tradition, without any definite evidence. So if any charlatan or trickster comes among them, he quickly acquires wealth by imposing upon these simple people.”

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Author:Lucian

“I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories of songs.”

People Knows Kind Ideas Song Memories Like You Motifs Tricksters

Author:DJ Spooky

“I must admit that I do have a particular soft spot for the character of the chameleon-trickster goddess Ris in Dreams of the Compass Rose. Ris has gone through the whole spectrum of personal change and has had the longest road of all. And in the end she chooses to come back to the world, to guide, and to help, and to open the eyes of those who are suffering. In that is her true strength and humorous wisdom. I really do like her a whole lot.”

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Author:Vera Nazarian

“How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?”

Doe Artist Poet Function Witness Tricksters

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“The white man is going to keep you integration-minded Negroes cooped up here in America, and when you discover that the white man is a trickster, a devil, that he has no intentions of integrating, then you Negroes will run wild.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“The gods in Yoruba mythology are not remote at all. They're benign, they're malign, they are mischievous, like Eshu for instance, tricksters, rascally, fornicators, that's a similarity to Greek mythology, for instance, you know. They're not saints, they're not saints. They're powerful. It's why they're not tyrannical. Of course, a number of them are also very, you know, benevolent, you know, there are saintly virtues to be found in them.”

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Author:Wole Soyinka

“All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.”

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Author:Alfred Molina

“The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.”

People Want Giving Ends Break Function Taboo Mischief Tricksters

Author:Tom Robbins

“I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong I know what I do and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer do with it as you will.”

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Author:Anne Rice

“The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors.”

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Book:The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed”

Past Surprise Rabbits Predictable Tricksters

Author:James Howe

“i am a trickster who doesn't know solitude”

Knows Solitude Tricksters

Author:Tite Kubo

“Trickster, love will be the end of you.”

Ends Tricksters

Author:Michael Buckley

“He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting, mixing, he was the shape of a shapeless flame, he was the eddying thread of needle-shapes in the shapeless mass of the waterfall. He was the invisible wind that hurried the clouds in billows and ribbons. You could see a bare tree on the skyline bent by the wind, holding up twisted branches and bent twigs, and suddenly its formless form would resolve itself into that of the trickster.”

Source: Ragnarok: the End of the Gods

“Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.”

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Book:Dust & Decay

Source: Dust & Decay

“This is a gathering of Lovers. In this gathering there is no high, no low, no smart, no ignorant, no special assembly, no grand discourse, no proper schooling required. There is no master, no disciple. This gathering is more like a drunken party, full of tricksters, fools, mad men and mad women. This is a gathering of Lovers.”

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Author:Rumi

“Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.”

Nature Secret Sublime Tricksters

Author:Albert Einstein

“The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.”

Giving Might Worst Economics Endless Employment Tricksters Swindlers

Author:Jack Vance

“All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.”

War Worst Ontology Tricksters

Book:Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko

Source: Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko

“Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.”

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Book:Think and Grow Rich

Source: Think and Grow Rich

“Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.”

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Book:The Red Baron

Source: The Red Baron

“No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is any event entirely predetermined or fated. Rather like the trickster, Raven, who first gave it its current form, the sensuous world is a spontaneous, playful and dangerous mystery in which we participate, an articulate and improvisational field of powers ever responsive to human actions and spoken words.”