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“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“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

“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

“The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know. Still, the struggle itself is worthwhile. Knowledge is the root of power, after all.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

“History is littered with dead good men.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

“A man doesn't put on a mask unless he's got some dark work in mind.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

“No one cares about the past any more,' he whispered. 'They don't see that you can't have a future without a past.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

“How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.”
― Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

“I have no use for people who exhibit manners.”
― Amy Vanderbilt

“There are two kinds of people in this world who never learn: those who always talk, and those who never listen.”
― T.A. Uner

“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
― William S. Burroughs

“A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney ...”
― Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!

But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”
― George Carlin

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
― John Lennon

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.”
― Bob Dylan

“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“Music is my higher power”
― Oliver James

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
― Confucius, The Book of Rites

“No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.”
― kurt vonnegut, A Man Without a Country