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"I'm sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to."
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"I am like Howard Beale. When he came out of the rain and he was like, none of this makes any sense. I am that guy."

"I'm always angry about the death of people who are still alive, their eyes are opened, yet they can't see anything...the spell of ignorance."

"The experience of frustration comes from the separation we impose between our yearning and our fear. Generally, we yearn for that which we fear, or at least fear the unknown (mystery, and therefore and paradoxically, truth) that will be caused through the pursuit of yearning. The more the separation between these two, yearning and fear, the more frustration if you are conscious, or the more neurosis if you are not (literally, "I can't stand the frustration, I'm going crazy)."

"Oh, Oh my fucking mother she screw ups everything!"

"The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world."

"Maybe if you allowed me to blow off some steam, I wouldn't have been so frustrated when I had to find higher order fucking derivatives."

"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

"It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one."

"I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance program because there isn't enough support from Washington."
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"Lightsong met the man's eyes, then smiled broadly, looking down at the God King. "My life to yours," Lifesong said. "My breath become yours."

"Shallan's mental image of Jasnah Kholin was of someone almost divine. It was, upon reflection, an odd way to regard a determined atheist."

"People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort."

"He was a man. Just a man. Yet, you always knew he'd succeed. He made you be what he wanted you to be."

"I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains."

"Good men don't become legends," he said quietly."Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway."

"They didn't speak as the sun slowly sank before them. Why was it most colorful when it was about to vanish for the night? Was it angry at being forced belong the horizon? Or was it a showman, giving a performance before retiring?Why was the most colorful part of people's bodies-the brightness of their blood-hidden beneath the skin, never to be seen unless something went wrong?"

"You could not stop times from changing, his mother said, no more than you could stop the surf from rolling."
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