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"I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I'll open my eyes and look back at them, and they'll know hat I survived."
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"Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people."
Writing
"I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I'll open my eyes and look back at them, and they'll know hat I survived."
Survival
"Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception."
Power
"It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important."
Acceptance
"I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?"
Honesty
"Dragons were dangerous in the sky. Of course, they were dangerous on the ground too. Just less dangerous. In the same way that a sword is less dangerous so long as it's pointed at someone else."
Fantasy
"By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry..."
Writing
"Ideas are never original," Kelsier said. "Only one thing is.""And what is that?"Style," Kelsier said.Then he punched Ruin across the face."
Creativity
"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
Expectation
"Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity - that was how to get stuff done."
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"Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death."
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Personal Development
"Money is good, but I prefer food, water, gold, weapon and energy."
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Personal Development
"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."
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Personal Development
"To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!"
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Personal Development
"That's a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty, but it's not really true. It's like you and your body are two separate things, like your body is betraying you, chugging on, idiotic and animal, craving water and sandwiches and bathroom breaks while your world falls apart."
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Personal Development
"Sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it."
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Personal Development
"I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I'll open my eyes and look back at them, and they'll know hat I survived."
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Personal Development
"If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image."
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Personal Development
"It's more like the anger what keep us alive, if yoh are Happy - you are fucking open to dead."
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Personal Development
"Percy: I thought I'd lost my mom forever, and I was stuck on a hill in a thunderstorm fighting this huge bull dude while Grover was passed out wailing. "Food! It was terrifying, man."
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