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Quotes by Author
"Don't complain. Be a good person in this wrong world and transform it."
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"I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book."
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"A recurring problem needs nothing but a tactical head-on solution. The more you entertain your problems, the more you entertain your unhappiness."
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"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own."
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"If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate."
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"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness."
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"It is not the obstacles that is the mountainbut it is our lack of knowledge of how to deal with the obstacles and how to overcome it."
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"If you thought with your minds and not your roosters, you would get the point!"
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"You have been assigned this mountain so that you can show others it can be moved."
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""You're bloody insane, Karede," Mat said. "Unfortunately, so am I.""
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"Determining when not to overestimate and when not to underestimate is a crucial skill that is not easily acquired. But it's unspeakably important to be able to know when not to underestimate, for example, another person's affections towards you; but then also when not to overestimate the same thing. If only we could all have radar that could tune into these two measures of living, we'd name it something like "humameter" or "give-a-shit-o-meter." Either way, unnamed or named, I've learned that this is among the most important skills accomplishable by mankind. Insecurities should not be allowed to dictate how we determine the amount of value another person has placed on us; fears should not be let in to tell us how much or how little of worth we have in someone else's eyes."
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"You know I blamed Craig for not letting me do things? You know how stupid I feel about that now? Maybe he didn't really encourage me to do things, but he didn't prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn't do things because I didn't want him to think different about me. But the things is, I wasn't being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't really even know me?"
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"To dream" means to focus and zoom the photos of destiny called visions for clearer view, manipulation and exploitation."
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"People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right."
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"Wandering is not limited to geography. Also an altered state of consciousness, it allows a disembodied self to drift on currents of collective awareness with minimal attachment to the physical world. This state of wander tapped imaginative faculties that opened me to a freedom of being only previously experienced through travel."
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"And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey."
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"When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else."
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"Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging."
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"You are the guardian and custodian of your heart, remember this always!"
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"The best thing to do when someone is trying to argue with you is to repeatedly state "Stay Away" and video record the entire event. You may need that video for the police afterwords when the aggressor starts fabricating fantasies about the event."
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"What makes you think that I give a shit about your self-confidence?"
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"I'm going to make it a law that the correct way to address your sovereign is my giving a high five.' Kai's smiled brightened. 'That's genius. Me too."
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"The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession."
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"Revolution begins with the self, in the self."
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"Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird."
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"Invest your time adding value to others."
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"Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly. "Just a general idea." He looked at her for a moment. "I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse then I ever could. I have seen a tough man break when I sent for a basket of figs and some mice."
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"An object in motion tends to stay in motion so if you want to go places and do great things, get moving! Although the desires of your heart may have been lying dormant for a reason or a season, now may be the time to reactivate and infuse them with life."
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"I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and light out of my system. I wanted the dark fecundity of nature, the deep well of the womb, silence, or else the lapping of the black waters of death. I wanted to be that night which the remorseless eye illuminated, a night diapered with stars and trailing comets. To be of night so frighteningly silent, so utterly incomprehensible and eloquent at the same time. Never more to speak or to listen or to think."
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