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“Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.”
― Trent Zelazny

“Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.”
― Trent Zelazny

“Life goes different ways for different people. Some people’s lives are formed by a cookie cutter and some are immediately tossed from the kitchen.”
― Trent Zelazny, To Sleep Gently

“You build desires, and as a result, rather than just being who and what you are, you create one, ten, hundreds of false egos, which in turn create more desires until there’s no sense of self left anywhere in the jam-packed auditorium of schizophrenic nobodies.”
― Trent Zelazny, To Sleep Gently

“I’m you, Blake. I’m a reflection of you, a multi-dimensional reflection. It’s easier to see a reflection of yourself than to see yourself in a reflection. It’s an inward/outward thing.”
― Trent Zelazny, A Crack in Melancholy Time

“Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy is within you, understand what it is and why you are afraid. Put a face on your fear. When you understand it, and it is no longer vague and shapeless, you will find that your fear is no longer so formidable.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Brightly Burning

“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
― Mercedes Lackey

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

“I hated Alfred. He was a miserable, pious, tight-fisted king who distrusted me because I was no Christian, because I was a northerner, and because I had given him his kingdom back at Ethandun. And as reward he had given me Fifhaden. Bastard.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Lords of the North

“The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors - that which it loves, and also that which it fears.”
― Jeff Wheeler

“What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes intense desire.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Blight of Muirwood

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“It doesn't matter what you read. What matters is you read. Whether it’s Tolstoy or Twilight, Kierkegaard or Betty and Veronica, keep reading, and don’t ever let somebody else—anybody—have a say about, or try to control, what you choose to learn from and/or escape into.”
― Trent Zelazny