The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such demands. “I already know the important things!” we say. Then Changer comes and throws our old ideas away. |
~ Frank Herbert ~ in ~ Chapterhouse : Dune ~ |
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