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    Brandon Sanderson
    “The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
    tags: storytelling
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “Life before Death.
    Strength before Weakness.
    Journey before Destination.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
    tags: inspirational, motto
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry...”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
    tags: caffeine, reading, writing
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “Elend: I kind of lost track of time…
    Breeze: For two hours?
    Elend: There were books involved.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
    tags: books, humor
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Every once in a while she'll get worked up and cry like that. But that's ok. She's letting her feelings out. The scary thing is not being able to do that. Then your feelings build up and harden and die inside. That's when you're in big trouble.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: feelings, japan, murakami, norwegian-wook
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    Haruki Murakami
    “What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
    tags: hard-boiled-wonderland, haruki, life, murakami
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    Haruki Murakami
    “You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 Book 1
    tags: instinct, murakami, talent
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you”
    ― Haruki Murakami
    tags: books, murakami, reading
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    Stephen King
    “Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
    ― Stephen King, The Gunslinger
    tags: dark, jon-jake-chambers, stephen-king, tower
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    Stephen King
    “FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”
    ― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep
    tags: humor, humour, stephen-king
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    Stephen King
    “Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: horror, king, on-writing, stephen-king
    662 likes

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  • #13
    Stephen King
    “God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: stephen-king
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    Stephen King
    “Am I weird?"

    "Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.”
    ― Stephen King, The Body
    tags: inspirational, stand-by-me, stephen-king
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    Stephen King
    “A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.”
    ― Stephen King, 11/22/63
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    Stephen King
    “the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.”
    ― Stephen King, The Gunslinger
    tags: black, chambers, dark-tower, deschain, gunslinger, jake, man, roland, stephen-king
    169 likes

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    Stephen King
    “oh shit it's shit”
    ― Stephen King, Different Seasons
    tags: different, hayworth, novella, prison, rita, seasons, shawshank-redemption, shit, stephen-king
    94 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
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  • #19
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: dumbledore
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    J.K. Rowling
    “The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: truth
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself
    tags: abercrombie, logen-ninefingers
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged
    tags: capital-punishment
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
    tags: ignorance, travel, wisdom
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “You have to realistic about these things.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
    tags: abercrombie, logen-ninefingers
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
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  • #28
    Joe Abercrombie
    “You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold
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    Stieg Larsson
    “Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
    tags: friendship, incredibly-true, mutuality, reciprocity, respect, trust
    2995 likes

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  • #30
    Stieg Larsson
    “There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.”
    ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire
    1118 likes



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