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“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
― Tom Clancy

“Life is problems. Living is solving problems.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Silverthorn

“Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Rise of a Merchant Prince

“The saddest part of a broken heart
Isn't the ending so much as the start
The tragedy starts from the very first spark
Losing your mind for the sake of your heart”
― Raymond E. Feist

“Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Krondor: The Betrayal

“The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.”
― Raymond E. Feist, The King's Buccaneer

“The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It’s your choice.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Shards of a Broken Crown

“Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Silverthorn

“A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Silverthorn

“Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.”
― Raymond E. Feist

“The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Krondor: The Betrayal

“Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.”
― Raymond E. Feist, The King's Buccaneer

“Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved.
Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Magician: Apprentice

“You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.”
― Raymond E. Feist, The King's Buccaneer

“Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.”
― Raymond E. Feist

“My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that read, ‘If I am found with amnesia, please give me the following books to read …’ And it listed half a dozen books where he longed to recapture that first glorious sense of needing to find out ‘what happens next’ … the feeling that keeps you up half the night. The feeling that comes before the plot’s been learned.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay

“Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant. The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times of warmth and does not change its leaves in times of cold: it continues unfading through the four seasons, becomes increasingly stable as it passes through ease and danger.”
― Zhuge Liang

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography