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"You are not walking slow enough, when taking a walk, if you do not come across as bored or depressed (to the average sane person)."
"When you patiently examine the beautiful skin of the leopard after it's hard day's search for the meat it enjoys, you shall not only see the sweat that went into its search for the meat, but you shall also realize the scent of the sweat beneath the beautiful skin."
"Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all."
"Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this duty conscientiously, they would give us fewer pictures chequered with vivid contrasts of light and shade; they would seldom elevate their heroes and heroines to the heights of rapture - still seldomer sink them to the depths of despair; for if we rarely taste the fulness of joy in this life, we yet more rarely savour the acrid bitterness of hopeless anguish."
"The bowl is warmer than the soup."
"An idiot child screaming in a hospital. (on George Bernard Shaw)"
"Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see."
"While humans play God, dogs learn from their masters."
"His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines."
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"When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it."
"If I have become my father, then I shall have my father's blade. Thorn is my dragon, and a thorn he shall be to all enemies. It is only right, then, that I should wield the sword, misery. Misery and Thorn, a fit match. Besides, Zar'roc should have gone to Morzan's eldest son, not his youngest. It is mine by right of birth." A cold pit formed in Eragon's stomach. It can't be. A cruel smile appeared on Murtagh's face. "I never told you my mother's name, did I? And you never told my yours. I'll say it now: Selena."
"He is a man who kicks at cats, said Solembum, as if that summed up Tenga's entire character."
"As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition."
"But the constant motion of the flames soon lulled him into a passive state where unrelated fragments of thoughts, sounds, images, and emotions drifted through him like snowflakes falling from a calm winter's sky."
"To help you fill in the details of the world you are creating, imagine that your characters inhabit a real world. Daydream what it would be like to be there. What would your characters eat, what would they talk about, where would they get their supplies, etc. Keep asking the question, "What happens next? Show your characters actions and write down their thoughts."
"If you wish to be happy,Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change."
"The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender your will to change and experience life. But options are before you, choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you a new hope and purpose."
"Finding one's place in the world is never easy.Have courage and be true to who you are.Remember, those who dare to be different areOften the ones who change the world."
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