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    Terry Pratchett
    “Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin
    tags: adventure, bravery, courage, curiousity, freedom, heroism, wonder
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
    tags: evil, ged, soul
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
    tags: learning, life-lessons, mistakes
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    Julijana Matanović
    “Zapamtite, svijet je počeo ići k vragu onog trenutka kad smo dragim ljudima rekli da nemamo vremena s njima popiti kavu.”
    ― Julijana Matanović, I na početku i na kraju bijaše kava
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
    tags: law, rules, war
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
    tags: ignorance, travel, wisdom
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
    tags: truth
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
    tags: choices
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “You can never have too many knives, his father had told him. Unless they're pointed at you, and by people who don't like you much. ”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “I've made peace with myself.
    Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.
    Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold
    tags: inner-peace, mercenary, resignation
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: adventure, change, discworld, growth, travel
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Eric
    tags: discworld, rincewind
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Is that the drink with the vodka? Because- "

    "No," said Lady Margolotta quietly. "This, I am afraid, is the other kind. Still, ve have that in common, don't ve? Neither of us drinks...alcohol. I believe you vere an alcoholic, Sir Samuel."

    "No," said Vimes, completely taken aback. "I was a drunk. You have to be richer than I was to be an alcoholic.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
    tags: discworld, humourous
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Samuel Beckett
    “All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho
    tags: failure, perseverance
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    Ian Fleming
    “Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
    ― Ian Fleming
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: books
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: childhood, happiness
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: inside, looks, people, true-nature
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: books
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
    tags: humor
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    Ingmar Bergman
    “Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
    ― Ingmar Bergman
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: book-the-count-of-monte-cristo
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    Natalie Babbitt
    “Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
    ― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
    tags: elegance, philosophy, simplicity
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