# Quote — James Morrow, The Wine of Violence

> Like most visionaries, The Teller saw the distant future with optical-glass clarity, the intermediate future with beeswax clarity, and the immediate future with the clarity of dark glasses dipped in tar.

- Author: [James Morrow](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow.md)
- Book: [The Wine of Violence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/the-wine-of-violence.md)
- Page: 153
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_K._Morrow#The_Wine_of_Violence_(1981)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/the-wine-of-violence/like-most-visionaries

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> “Zolmec,” said Nazra, “has always taught that the greatest words are ‘I could very well be wrong.’”

p. 185 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/the-wine-of-violence/zolmec-said-nazra.md)

> It was not a question of regressive old ideas versus enlightened new ideas, but of reasonable caution versus arrogant caprice.

p. 46 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/the-wine-of-violence/it-was-not.md)

> Children, being close to the ground, have a special rapport with insects.

p. 17 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/the-wine-of-violence/children-being-close.md)