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  • All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.

    Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.229, Paradise Publishing
  • 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.

    Doors   Evil   Balance  
    Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1661, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • 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.

    Napoleon Hill, Wyatt North (2014). “Think and Grow Rich”, p.23, Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
  • Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.

    Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated
  • 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.

    Simple   Law   People  
  • 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.

    Interview With Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. October 29, 2009.
  • 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.

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

    Funny   Men   Differences  
  • Memory is, of course, a trickster.

  • 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.

    Source: mavericksofthemind.com
  • 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.

    Running   Men   White Man  
    Source: teachingamericanhistory.org
  • 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.

    Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com
  • 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.

    Eye   Swag   Stupidity  
    Manfred von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.128, BoD – Books on Demand
  • 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   Giving   Want  
  • Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.

    Nature   Sublime   Secret  
    Letter to Oscar Veblen, 30 Apr. 1930
  • 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.

    Ravens   Events   World  
  • The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo.

    Art   News   Journalism  
    "The Way to Minack". Book by Derek Tangye, 1968.
  • Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.

    Fighting   Allies   Heat  
    Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Dust & Decay”, p.399, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    "Wild emotions are all very well, Russell Brand, but then what?" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2013.
  • 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.

    A.S. Byatt (2011). “Ragnarok: the End of the Gods”, p.28, Canongate Books
  • 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.

    Men   Thinking   Rays  
  • 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.

    Art   Mean   Men  
  • 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.

    Life   Smart   Party  
    "Hush Don't Say Anything to God". Book by Rumi, translated by Shahram Shiva, 1999.
  • How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?

    Artist   Doe   Poet  
    Source: www.aaa.si.edu
  • If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

    Tricksters   Tricks   Ifs  
    Dorothy Miller Richardson (1979). “Pilgrimage”
  • 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.

    Song   Memories   Ideas  
    Source: bigthink.com
  • 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.

    Black   Vampire   Capes  
  • Trickster, love will be the end of you.

  • ...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.

  • i am a trickster who doesn't know solitude

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