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"Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read."
"Failure is the school of greatness."
"Experience is a master teacher, even when it's not our own."
"[A]t bottom it is the same with traveling as with reading. How often do we complain that we cannot remember one thousandth part of what we read! In both cases, however, we may console ourselves with the reflection that the things we see and read make an impression on the mind before they are forgotten, and so contribute to its formation and nurture."
"Curiosity killed the cat, but not before teaching her that honey bees are not sweet, tweeting birds are slow to react, mice can serve as both toys and food, big dogs like to snuggle, falling isn't flying, cream drips from lazy cows, water should be avoided at all costs, baths don't require getting wet, kindness and cruelty often fall from the same hand, and engines remain comfortably warm long after the motor dies."
"Learn to let urgency go. Nothing is urgent. Stress is the product of uncertainty and urgency of life."
Explore more quotes by Laurell K. Hamilton
"Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own."
"Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development."
"Make them fear you. Machiavelli said it nearly six hundred years ago, but it's still true. Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job."
"You should never attack a necromancer in a cemetery, it's like chasing Rambo into a building full of loaded guns. Some people seem to help you kill them."
"There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles."
"What do you do with a master vampire that won't leave you alone? Good question. Unfortunately, what I needed was a good answer."
"He held Saraid the rest of the way home, and in a way she held him right back, because sometimes and especially for a man, being able to be someone's big strong shoulder to cry on helps you not need to cry so very much yourself."
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