Merlyn Quotes

Long ago, when I had my Merlyn to help, he tried to teach me to think. He knew he would have to leave in the end, so he forced me to think for myself. Don't ever let anybody teach you to think, Lance: it is the curse of the world. ~ T.H. White

So, what is the right way to look at death?
Do we see death as life's expiration date and the point of no return? Or is it simply a threshold to be crossed, on the way to another dimension, or another life?
Do you want to know what the right answer is?

Whatever makes you feel more comfortable about dying. ~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

A conservative culture will resist change and treat progress as a virus ~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

Heteronormativity: The curious idea that your genitals dictate your behaviour. ~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

If you equate going to the bathroom with sex and sexual perversion, you should see a therapist.
The rest of us go in there to take a leak. ~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

Wart draggled off to the tower room, where Merlyn was busy knitting himself a woollen night-cap for the winter. "I cast off two together at every other line," said the magician, "but for some reason it seems to end too sharply. Like an onion. It is the turning of the heel that does one, every time. ~ T.H. White

And, though there should be a world of difference between the smile of a man and the bared fangs of a wolf, with Joss Merlyn they were one and the same. ~ Daphne Du Maurier

It is far better to make mistakes, than to marry them. ~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

Using porn to guide sexual activity, is like using Jackass to model behaviour. ~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

Prostitution is illegal in many places, but porn is not. But what is porn if not sex for money, caught on camera? What the law actually prohibits then is having paid sex in private and not allowing anyone to watch. ~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

Bake a lie into proven facts and you will be surprised at how many fall for it. ~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

Normality is an illusion, created by a conservative culture to control behaviour ~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

John the Skrull: (as Merlyn) "Here, listen. It's me, Merlyn, the magic man. There's no need for all this conflict, like. I command you to
"
Tink: "Suck my tits, you fairy fuckers!"
John the Skrull: "I was going to say 'give peace a chance' ... ~ Paul Cornell

Neither force, nor argument, nor opinion," said Merlyn with the deepest sincerity, "are thinking. Argument is only a display of mental force, a sort of fencing with points in order to gain a victory, not for truth. Opinions are the blind alleys of lazy or of stupid men, who are unable to think. If ever a true politician really thinks a subject out dispassionately, even Homo stultus will be compelled to accept his findings in the end. Opinion can never stand beside truth. At present, however, Homo impoliticus is content either to argue with opinions or to fight with his fists, instead of waiting for the truth in his head. It will take a million years, before the mass of men can be called political animals. ~ T.H. White

Instead of using drugs to create system friendly humans, perhaps we should be creating human friendly systems that do not require people to take drugs to function. ~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

Merlyn has guns from 500 years in the future!!! ~ Cameron Kennedy

The mustard - pot got up and walked over to his plate on thin silver legs that waddled like the owl's. Then it uncurled its handles and one handle lifted its lid with exaggerated courtesy while the other helped him to a generous spoonful. 'Oh, I love the mustard - pot!' cried the Wart. 'Wherever did you get it?' At this the pot beamed all over its face and began to strut a bit, but Merlyn rapped it on the head with a teaspoon, so that it sat down and shut up at once. 'It is not a bad pot,' he said grudgingly. 'Only it is inclined to give itself airs. ~ T.H. White

Arthur was not one of those interesting characters whose subtle motives can be dissected. He was only a simple and affectionate man, because Merlyn had believed that love and simplicity were worth having. ~ T.H. White

Control people's sexuality and you control them. After all, if people allow you to dictate how they behave in the privacy of their own bedrooms, there is very little that they will not allow you to control. ~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

When gender non-conforming people cross paths with sexually confused and repressed people, shit hits the fan. ~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

Schoolgirls are not distractions.
They are students.
Teach them something other than misogyny. ~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

Mad is a label we attach to people we find disruptive and confusing. ~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

Do unto others' is a boomerang. Whatever you decide to throw out there will return to you. If you do not like what comes back - change your output. ~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

Merlyn took the Wart's hand and said kindly, You are young, and do not understand these things. But you will learn that owls are the most courteous, single-hearted and faithful creatures living. You must never be familiar, rude or vulgar with them, or make them look ridiculous. Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wisdom, and, although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise. No owl can possibly be called Archie. ~ T.H. White

Oh, what a lovely owl!" Cried the Wart.
But when he went up to it and held out his hand, the owl grew half as tall again, stood up as stiff as a poker, closed its eyes so that there was only the smallest slit to peep through - as you are in the habit of doing when told to shut your eyes at hide-and-seek - and said in a doubtful voice
"There is no owl."
Then it shut its eyes entirely and looked the other way.
"It is only a boy," said Merlyn.
"There is no boy," said the owl hopefully, without turning round. ~ T.H. White

Oddly enough you can get married and live happily ever after without spawning. Spawning is optional. ~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

Prostitution has the same relationship to trafficking as sex has to rape. One is voluntary, the other is not ~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

The problem with mad people is not that they are mad, but that they are suffering from a particular brand of madness that the majority are not. ~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

The Wart's own special one was called Cavall, and he happened to be licking Cavall's nose - not the other way about - when Merlyn came in and found him.
That will be regarded as an unsanitary habit," said Merlyn, "though I cannot see it myself. After all, God made the creature's nose just as well as he made your tongue. ~ T.H. White

Fear sells arguments and making people fear
the consequences makes even bad arguments go down easy. ~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

Merlyn always said that sportsmanship was the curse of the world, and so it is. ~ T.H. White