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"Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me.""
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"In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed."
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"I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable."
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"Irony, we want our handwriting to look like typed fonts, and our computer fonts to look like handwritten text."
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"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
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"The funny part of being funny is when you start seeing your fans writing funny words and attributing them to you."
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"One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing."
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"If you see this guy drowning, do not stop him, it might be Peter trying to walk on water reaching Christ."
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"Starving whilst schooled is like a man's finding out that his wife is on her periods - a few seconds after he took Viagra."
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"If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success story."
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"Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then."
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"Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won."
Conflict


"Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?"
Challenge


"Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope."
Strength


"In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so."
Culture


"He hadn't asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into a shape, he realized that he wanted to lead. If someone had to be lord of these people, he wanted to do it himself. Because doing it yourself was the only way to see that it was done right."
Growth


"Death comes to us all, we can only choose how to face it when it comes."
Mortality


"I'd run. But maybe you can't run. Think of that, too.' His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. 'Sometimes you can't run."
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"Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it."
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"But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice."
Morality


"A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy."
Instinct
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