WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:35:50 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Tepper, Sheri – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Tepper, Sheri -- Six Moon Dance, ch. 55 (1998) https://wist.info/tepper-sheri/73233/ https://wist.info/tepper-sheri/73233/#respond Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:08:24 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=73233 Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from. If there has never been conflict, imagination never develops. Wits arise in answer to danger, to pain, to tragedy. No one ever got smarter eating easy apples.


Sheri Tepper (1929–2016) American writer
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