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"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"

"Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being."

"Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know."

"All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible."

"An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures."

"I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else."

"I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York."
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"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?"


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


"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."


"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."


"Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it."


"But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice."


"Nynaeve shook her head. She supposed it was one way to find money for the poor. Simply rob anyone who was not poor. Of course, that would just make everyone poor in the end, but it might work for a time."


"Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three."


"I'm not a clever man, but I'm willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don't try poking me in the direction you want me to go. I don't like that Master Balwer."
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