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"Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people."
Writing
"Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception."
Power
"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
"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."
Discipline
"There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed-thereafter, their lives could only get better."
Belief
"Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly."
Competition
"I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what it sounded like."
Expression
"People are valuable, Mistress Vin, and so-therefore-are their beliefs."
Ethics
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"Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening."
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Personal Development
"Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her."
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Personal Development
"Come in, Bean." Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life."
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Personal Development
"If we really exist merely to fulfill God's plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director, and, the audience."
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Personal Development
"How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you."
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Personal Development
"In all seriousness, Archer claims that if you, as a living, alive person, hear the song "You're the One That I Want" from the musical Grease three times in a single day - seemingly by accident, whether in an elevator, on a radio, a telephone hold button, or whatever - it indicates that you'll surely die before sunset."
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Personal Development
"Everything is happening according to the 'drawing' [past causes], You just have to 'see' them. Desires are 'drawings' too."
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Personal Development
"O that a man might knowThe end of this day's business ere it come!But it sufficeth that the day will endAnd then the end is known."
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"Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She says a chipmunk told her she would grow up to be a famous ballerina and that she would die of consumption unloved in a boardinghouse in Prague."
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"To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?"
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