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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: fantasy, fear, kvothe, man-s, name, patrick-rothfuss, wind, wise
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: perfection
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: description, language, power-of-words, words
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: identity, self-image, sense-of-self, stories, storytelling
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    William Shakespeare
    “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
    An evil soul producing holy witness
    Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
    A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
    O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
    tags: deceit
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things
    tags: truisms, truth, wishing
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “She'd strayed from the true way of things. First you set yourself to rights. And then your house. And then your corner of the sky. And after that... Well, then she didn't rightly know what happened next. But she hoped that after that the world would start to run itself a bit, like a gear-watch proper fit and kissed wit oil. That was what she hoped would happen.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things
    tags: answers, aphorism, aphorisms, curiosity, curiousity, inquisitiveness, understanding
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “I cannot help but wonder how many of us walk through our lives, day after day, feeling slightly broken and alone, surrounded all the time by others who feel exactly the same way.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things
    tags: loneliness
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    Will Once
    “Did you hear about Katie Parkinson? ... She's going out with Christopher... They've been kissing."

    "It was like a Semtex explosion in my brain. I did not know whether to cry or run away.”
    ― Will Once, Global Domination for Beginners
    tags: love, unrequited-love
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Winter is coming.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: forcasting, mottos, winter
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: denial, honesty, truth
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    Andy Weir
    “Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
    ― Andy Weir, The Martian
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    Michael Swanwick
    “Lucky for you, you don’t need to worry about love at all. Because you have a wife.”
    ― Michael Swanwick, Chasing the Phoenix
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
    If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: progress
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    Michael J. Sullivan
    “If anyone had asked Royce Melborn what he hated most at that moment, he would’ve said dogs. Dogs and dwarves topped his list, both equally despised for having so much in common—each was short, vicious, and inexcusably hairy.”
    ― Michael J. Sullivan, The Death of Dulgath
    tags: dogs, dwarves
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    Claire North
    “The world is ending, as it always must. But the end of the world is getting faster.”
    ― Claire North
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    J.D. Salinger
    “If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: fuck-you, holden, humor, signs
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
    tags: humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
    tags: rulebreaking, rules
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The thing is, I mean, there’s times when you look at the universe and you think, “What about me?” and you can just hear the universe replying, “Well, what about you?” ”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
    tags: universe
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person, would first of all try to find a book called How to Be An Interesting Person and then see whether there were any courses available.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
    tags: humour, self-help
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
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    Terry Pratchett
    “If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
    tags: cynicism, humor, life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
    tags: dragons, friends
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
    tags: humanity
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    Terry Pratchett
    “They avoided one another's faces, for fear of what they might see mirrored there. Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest, and then I'll murmur agreement, not actually say anything, I'm not stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard...
    No one said anything. The cowards, thought each man.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
    tags: reality-of-life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “He could think in italics. Such people need watching.

    Preferably from a safe distance.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
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