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#1

“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.”
― Gary Provost

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#2

“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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#3

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand

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#4

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

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#5

“From the rising of the sun to the setting, to its rising again, we place what is hard to endure with what is sweet to remember, and find peace.”
― K.A. Applegate, The Illusion

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#6

“Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

tags: fate, longing, philosophy, poison, present, today, tomorrow

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#7

“Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

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#8

“Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

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#9

“Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

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#10

“The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

tags: past, present

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#11

“Leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life-do you enjoy unending pain? There is no shame in walking away from bones. Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

tags: pain, past

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#12

“I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the reason for each event come clear to me.

But then I returned one day, to find all my careful scribing gone to fragments of vellum lying in a trampled yard with wet snow blowing over them. I sat my horse, looking down at them, and knew that, as it always would, the past had broken free of my effort to define and understand it. History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

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#13

“So, with all the wide world to choose from, you didn't choose at all. You simply stopped wandering one day”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

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#14

“Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it. But like the flower, the past cannot be trapped that way. It loses its fragrance and and its vitality, its fragility becomes brittleness and its colors fade. And when next you look on the flower, you know that it is not at all what you sought to capture, that that moment has fled forever.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

tags: attempt, capture, change, fade, fled, flower, history, hold-on, past, preserve, reality, remember, time, write, writing

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#15

“Regrets are useless, " the Fool replied. "All you can do is start from where you are.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

tags: fool-start, regret, truth, useless

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#16

“...it's strange, isn't it, how you don't know how big a part of you someone is until they're threatened? And then you think you can't possibly go on if something happens to them, but the most frightening part is that, actually, you will go on, you'll have to go on, with them or without them. There's just no telling what you'll become”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

tags: care, change, danger, fear, heart, love, outcome, realization, realize, result, risk, see, soul, threaten, truth, understand, worry

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#17

“You’re stalling, ART-drone said. I am not. I can stand here and be useless without any ulterior motives, thanks.”
― Martha Wells, System Collapse

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#18

“But since the thing that happened I don't think I've had an emotion that wasn't the visual equivalent of a wet blanket crumpled on the floor.”
― Martha Wells, System Collapse

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#19

“I felt HostileSecUnit1 go into shutdown mode. It wasn’t dead, it was just catastrophically damaged. (I know, who isn’t?)”
― Martha Wells, System Collapse

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#20

“We are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

tags: fitz

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#21

“Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

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#22

“Silence asks the questions that are too awkward to phrase. It even asks the questions one does not know to ask.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

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#23

“The death of Nighteyes gutted me. I walked wounded through my life in the days that followed, unaware of just how mutilated I was. I was like the man who complains of the itching of his severed leg. The itching distracts from the immense knowledge that one will forever after hobble through life.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

tags: after, death, denial, effect, forever, itch, knowledge, life, mutilated, pain, result, unimaginable, wound

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#24

“We all perish in our last attempt to live.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

tags: burrich

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#25

“...You won't even see what is put right on the table before you. Men. If it was raining soup you'd be out there with a fork.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

tags: blind, boys, confusing, deaf, dumb, guys, jek, men, refuse, soup

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#26

“Have you ever suddenly realized that there was someone you loved, but presently did not like very much?”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

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#27

“I know you think I've gone mad. I haven't. What's happened to me is worse.

I've gone sane.

That's why you'll come, Mace. That's why you'll have to.

Because nothing is more dangerous than a Jedi who's finally sane.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Star Wars: Shatterpoint

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#28

“Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the same. Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant. Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice

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#29

“Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice

tags: beginnings, disunity, endings, unity

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#30

“If you’re going to do something that crazy, save it for when it’ll make a difference. But absent near-omniscience there’s no way to know when that is. You can only make your best approximate calculation. You can only make your throw and try to puzzle out the results afterward.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice

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