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    Terry Pratchett
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don't try to get there at all. It'll happen when you're not looking for it. And don't talk too much about it even among yourselves. And don't mention it to anyone else unless you find that they've had adventures of the same sort themselves. What's that? How will you know? Oh, you'll know all right. Odd things, they say-even their looks-will let the secret out. Keep your eyes open. Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools."
    -The Professor”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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    Steven Erikson
    “Tell me, Tool, what dominates your thoughts?'
    The Imass shrugged before replying.
    'I think of futility, Adjunct.'
    'Do all Imass think about futility?'
    'No. Few think at all.'
    'Why is that?'
    The Imass leaned his head to one side and regarded her.
    'Because Adjunct, it is futile.”
    ― Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon
    tags: malazan
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    Steven Erikson
    “Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.”
    ― Steven Erikson, House of Chains
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    Steven Erikson
    “The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.”
    ― Steven Erikson
    tags: future
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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  • #9
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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    William Penn
    “Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.”
    ― William Penn
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    Albert Einstein
    “Time is an illusion.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: relativity, time
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  • #13
    Stephen King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Neil Gaiman
    “This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: writing
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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    Steven Erikson
    “Children are dying."
    Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.”
    ― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: writing
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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    Frank Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: endings, happy-endings, writing
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    Elaina J. Davidson
    “Never underestimate a situation. Chance is random and is able to undo every preparation.”
    ― Elaina J. Davidson
    tags: lore, sages
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    Elaina J. Davidson
    “Tell the truth, traveller, or you create issues hard to overcome later.”
    ― Elaina J. Davidson, The Kinfire Tree
    tags: lore, sages
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    Elaina J. Davidson
    “Dreams are real; dreams exert influence”
    ― Elaina J. Davidson, The Infinity Mantle
    tags: dreams, infinity, lore
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: fair, life
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    Steven Erikson
    “Kallor shrugged. '[...] I have walked this land when the T'lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand strong. I have spread the fire of my wrath across entire continents, and sat alone upon tall thrones. Do you grasp the meaning of this?'

    'Yes,' [said Caladan Brood.] 'You never learn.”
    ― Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice
    tags: malazan
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    Chris Mentillo
    “To make an exceptional living with a career as a writer, you need multiple sources of writing income to sustain lifelong earnings. Never depend on only one origin of income as a novelist.”
    ― Chris Mentillo
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