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Babel

by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

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Ken’s Quotes

“Never abandon as hopeless something you've never tried.”
― David Dalglish, A Dance of Cloaks

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“I've always been very confident in my immaturity.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

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“Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?...Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds...But failure...ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value. Sometimes we just have to wait long enough...then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing...There's always another secret.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

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“Oh C'mon. Can you ever "solve" poverty? Can you ever "solve" crime? Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That's not cynicism, that's maturity. You can't stop the rain. All you can do is just build a roof that you hope won't leak, or at least leak on the people who are gonna vote for you.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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