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#1

“The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois

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#2

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

tags: reading

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#3

“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”
― Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

tags: education, soul

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#4

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: humor

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#5

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

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#6

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony

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#7

“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg

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#8

“Often you cannot wait for inspiration—it needs to be sought out.”
― Dean F. Wilson

tags: inspiration, writing

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#9

“Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

tags: rohan, theoden, tolkien

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#10

“I consider fantasy the heir of mythology, addressing a real human need to seek out answers to life’s many mysteries. It is a genre that can tell an entertaining and enthralling story on the surface, and yet deliver a potent message underneath, where everything becomes a symbol of something greater.”
― Dean F. Wilson

tags: entertainment, fantasy, humanity, mythology, symbolism

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#11

“Stories serve multiple purposes. At a basic level they are great entertainment, which is essential for living a happy and healthy life, but on a deeper level stories help us explore issues that are otherwise difficult to address. On one hand a good book helps us escape our troubles, and on the other hand it can help us face up to those troubles by bringing real issues to the fore, often in a more manageable way, since the problems are experienced vicariously through the eyes of another.”
― Dean F. Wilson

tags: books, entertainment, fiction, psychology, reading, stories, writing

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#12

“There are always periodic opportunities to give up, while every single moment is an opportunity to persevere.”
― Dean F. Wilson

tags: dedication, goals, inspirational, perseverance

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#13

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#14

“He could feel the Great Iron War coming to an end now, but he no longer had his finger on the button. The curtains of the world were about to close, and the play of life would soon be over. There would be no applause.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Worldwaker

tags: performance, stage, war

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#15

“He had no big plan for this. He had not prepared for the day when he would be fighting his own work. He had not plotted against his own plots.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Worldwaker

tags: fight, plan, plot, unprepared

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#16

“As the darkness deepened, the sky was streaked with veins of red, the last low beats of a dying sun. Against this scarlet canopy the hulk of the Rust Road's twin peaks stood tall, mountains of metal, unnaturally jagged. Their sharp pinnacles pierced the sky, and Jacob could not help but wonder if that explained the blood there.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Worldwaker

tags: dusk, landscape, mountains, sky, sunset

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#17

“Jacob studied the iron graveyard, where every vehicle was its own gravestone. He drove slowly through, as if he was afraid to wake the dead. That was not it though. The general made it clear that they should fear the living.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Worldwaker

tags: dead, fear, graveyard, junkyard, living, vehicles

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#18

“The Clockwork Commune were made of many things, and some of them were steamtruck wheels and landship tracks. They salvaged speed, and used it to help them salvage everything else.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Worldwaker

tags: clockwork, steampunk

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#19

“A new age is approaching, and its advent might make us pray to go back to the days of the trenches. Once the Worldwaker goes off, we will never be able to sleep again.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Worldwaker

tags: change, new-age, sleep, war

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#20

“Fear is leaden. Courage is golden. Let go of the weight of the world, and you will fly.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Worldwaker

tags: courage, fear, inspirational, motivational

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#21

“They began their climb, already weary, and the sun tried to steal whatever strength they had left. It was another god, a forgotten god, who gave a daily reminder, and was forgotten again each night.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Worldwaker

tags: day, god, night, sun, sunrise, sunset

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#22

“That youthful enthusiasm for the Resistance was killed off quick in new recruits, if they were not killed off first.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Worldwaker

tags: children, death, resistance, war, youth

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#23

“Darkness gathered there, smothering out the sunlight. As the fleet headed towards it, it threatened to smother them too.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Worldwaker

tags: darkness, darkness-and-light

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#24

“They dived into the ocean of shadow and smog, adding to it with the fumes of their own aircraft. The goggles were useless now, but Jacob kept them on, in case there might be some break in the murky pool. It was fitting that the Worldwaker had passed through there, with the shark emblem painted on brightly. In those deep waters it could not be seen. It almost felt like it had lured them in. The dolphins do not hunt the sharks.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Worldwaker

tags: hunting, ocean, sea, shadow, shark, water

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#25

“Then everything turned brilliant white for a second, and Jacob's eyes were stunned. The shock faded, but then another flash came, dulled by the darkness of the fog. Blades of lightning broke through the sea of smoke, accompanied by the violent clap of thunder, as if an angry god saw the storm devour them, and burst out into wild applause.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Worldwaker

tags: god, lightning, storm, thunder, weather

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#26

“His eyes were like galaxies, and everyone could get lost in them. How many stars flickered there, no one knew, but every time he glanced upon someone, a new star ignited, a new star was caught in the gravity of his stare.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Worldwaker

tags: eyes, galaxy, space, stars

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#27

“Dynamite is loyal to the one who lights the fuse.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Skyshaker

tags: action, adventure, badass, dynamite

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#28

“Sometimes all the players get a bad hand. You just have to be determined enough to see the game through.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Skyshaker

tags: attitude, determination, inspiration, inspirational, motivation, perseverance

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#29

“It was as much a battle of wits and words as it was of mitts and swords.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Skyshaker

tags: battle, culture, language, war, wit, words

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#30

“The thought had crossed my mind, that in order to save this world from Hell, I might have to become the Devil.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Skyshaker

tags: badass, devil, hell, world

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