WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:35:40 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg trolls – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Ibsen, Henrik -- Letter to Ludwig Passarge (16 Jun 1890) https://wist.info/ibsen-henrik/27203/ https://wist.info/ibsen-henrik/27203/#respond Fri, 17 Oct 2014 13:54:09 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=27203 To live is to war with trolls in heart and soul.


Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) Norwegian poet and playwright
Letter to Ludwig Passarge (16 Jun 1890)

Discussing Peter Gynt, which Passarge was translating. Often paraphrased "To live is to war against the trolls." ]]> https://wist.info/ibsen-henrik/27203/feed/ 0 27203 Hayden, Teresa Nielsen -- Making Light, “Commonplaces” https://wist.info/hayden-teresa-nielsen/26798/ https://wist.info/hayden-teresa-nielsen/26798/#respond Fri, 05 Sep 2014 16:01:23 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=26798 If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it’s civil society that goes away, not force.


Teresa Nielsen Hayden (b. 1956) American editor, writer, essayist
Making Light, “Commonplaces”
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