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"Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position."

"Be patient, persistent and above all, believe."

"Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end."

"Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory."

"Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope."

"Sometimes the only path we can maneuver is from the bed to the bathroom. That's okay. Let your journey be what it is . Just keep moving."

"If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose."

"When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times."

"Fleet kept running, Kaladin growled, getting back under Elhokar's arm."What?"He couldn't win, but he kept running. And when the storm caught him, it didn't matter that he'd died, because he'd run for all he had."Sure. All right. The king sounded groggy, though Kaladin couldn't tell if it was the alcohol or the blood loss."We all die in the end, you see, Kaladin said. "So I guess what truly matters is just how well you've run. And Elhokar, you've kept running since your father was killed, even if you screw up all the storming time."Thank you? the king said, drowsy."

"The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes."
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"Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere."

"People love books because they're searching for answers to deep, unconscious questions - and books get as close as it's possible to get."

"When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer."

"People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book."

"Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people " and not to be dragged downwards into the underworld we all regularly inhabit?"

"Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere."

"He is polite, the perfect gentleman at first. Yet she knows his kindness is an act he performs for himself to justify what he's about to do."
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