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The future always waits until the present to reveal its plans. But the past can clarify our goals for us sometimes, help us say good-bye to those we haven't let go, even realize that we need to change. That is the magic of stories.
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Peace isn't as easy as everyone wants you to think it is.
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The guy lacks a soul--did you see him? He probably thinks cauliflower is delicious!
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Once horrors take hold in the mind, they tend to clutch and linger, and it takes waves and waves of laughter to wash them away.
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the nice bit about living in urban America is that people tend to either ignore eccentrics or move to the suburbs to escape them.
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Don't mess with me, his boots said, for I am wearing the skin of the world's deadliest serpent. Or maybe they said, Behold, I'm an arrogant ass.
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I think--and it is something I have thought about for a while--that there is a measure of heroism in providing safe harbor. Not actively saving anyone so much as providing the space for them to save themselves. It takes a lot of effort and patience and kindness and a resignation that while you may be thanked, you will never be celebrated for it.
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A man with perspective! That's rare.
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It was safe and everything smelled good and tasted delicious, and those things are the fundamental building blocks of a great day.
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And perfect contentment, that sublime moment when you're at peak anticipation for something and you know you'll get it soon. I often think that moment is better in some ways than getting the thing itself: it's the awareness of your own joy at being alive
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It's more difficult to make new friends as you grow older,
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We read all those stale histories in school, you know, and I don't doubt that they scrubbed away a whole lot of blood and pain. Countless tragedies happening to families like ours, all reduced to a sentence or three, while pages were devoted to what this ruler ate or what that rich person wore.
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It was a statement that begged to be corrected, a favorite stratagem of mine to keep people talking. Say something a person knows to be wrong and very few will be able to contain the inner pedant who simply must teach you how very wrong you are.
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It's going to be fine as long as you don't get killed.
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Although I'm sure that the immortality of the spirit was a comforting thought, it was a worldview that to my own admittedly biased eyes placed little value on life.
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I'm just thinking about how our causes have trouble seeing their effects until it's too late to do anything but mourn them.
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When your only view is one of such peace and beauty, you can believe the happy lie that the rest of the world is just so.
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I think my instinctive rejection of judgment comes from meeting too many people who say on the one hand that their chosen deity shall judge us all but then they judge me anyway, rather than leaving it up to the deity they profess to believe in and trust. That's using religion to cudgel people into conformity, and it grinds my gears.
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Brewers are craftsmen to be envied, and Goibhniu is one of the finest. His daily work is easily tested and tasted, and unlike, say, one of those people who greet you in a soulless big box store, he can point to the produce of his labor and say, "There. I made that." These days he has a taproom next to his smithy (for he is also an extremely accomplished blacksmith), and he is often found behind the bar, pulling pints for people and grinning..
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Depression is a place that you have a key but you don't look for it.
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Thank the Gods Below for paranoia. I classified it as a survival skill rather than a neurotic condition.
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When in a fight for your life, you never, ever fight fairly. Honor and sportsmanship are wonderful in games that don't matter, but it's the honorable guys who always die in real battles.
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You can't put your fist through a man's wood and expect him to forgive and
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If there is anything I can warn you about when it comes to expanding your lifespan, it's that boredom is your enemy. If you get too bored with the routine of it, the endless eating, and sleeping, and shitting and working so that you can eat, sleep and shit some more you'll do something stupid in an attempt to entertain yourself. And you'll die. Or you'll slip into depression, make the last shift and live out your days as an animal. Or you'l..
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feck a handsome chicken if I wasn't right
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A four-syllable name is impractical in battle, lad, and in most poetry too, if ye care about what the bards say. I'll give ye only two syllables until ye actually save me bones from the Fae. You can pick. Cory, Ian, Andy, Gobshite, I don't care. What'll it be?" "Coriander, sir." He shoots a pleading glance at Brighid, but she looks amused, and I laugh at him. "How about Fuckstick? Aye, that'll do." He doesn't have a ward against me calling ..
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If you still want to tell him you're sorry tomorrow or a hundred years from now, you're going to get that chance. Because you're going to be around. And maybe when you say it there will be forgiveness and it will be good. And if there isn't forgiveness, then it will still be good, because you will have done what's right: He deserves that apology. And in the meantime, there is beer and blood and the songs of bards, the great wide world to li..
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He's the father of modern empiricism, or the scientific method. Before he came along, people conducted all their arguments through a series of logical fallacies or simply shouting louder than the other guy, or, if they did use facts, they only selected ones that reinforced their prejudices and advanced their agenda." "More than ever. But Bacon showed us a way to shed preconceived notions and conduct experiments in such a way that the resul..
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the inability to ameliorate the soul-destroying visual discord of corporate fast-food franchises. Some acquaintance or another would periodically drag me into one of the horrors, and, under the malign influence of a decor scheme that assaulted my retinas with primary colors,
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Great Big Bears! What happened to you? - Oberon
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I am unsure why modern men are so reluctant to admit that they enjoy snuggling. When they scoff at it or claim to despise it, they're lying, of course, trying to conform to some bullshit code of machismo. Regardless of one's lifespan, there are few pleasures in it like a lazy morning under comfy blankets with someone you love. Granuaile's soft smile and the early beams of sunlight on her freckled cheeks, all healed now, were so beautiful th..
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A man's supposed to shit himself after he dies, son, not before. Try to remember that, lad, so that when your time comes, you won't make a right girly mess of it. Now fuck off and go play in the bog.
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There are trees to pee on and tiny animals to chase! (Oberon
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Tasmania doesn't think we can wait, and I'm on board with the idea. I'm thinking these new Druids will be Gaia's healers above all else, fighting centuries of humans turning everything to shite. I wonder if they have a fancy law or name for the principle that Humans Ruin Everything for Profit. Maybe that's just capitalism. Regardless, it's going to take generations of Druids to undo all this damage.
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He does that a lot--go in a different direction, I mean. I sometimes think if it weren't for Oberon, Siodhachan would be the loneliest man alive.
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What is all this melodrama? Just because they've never heard of your favorite thing doesn't mean they hate their lives or they need your sympathy or need you to come along and show them how to fix it. In fact, it's kind of arrogant of you to think that. Imperialist, even.
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It tore me away from a nightmare where I was trying to teach high school science to a room full of creationists, so I was mightily relieved to see the Chooser of the Slain.
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The universe is exactly the size that your soul can encompass. Some people live in extremely small worlds, and some live in a world of infinite possibilities. you have just received some sensory input that suggest its bigger than you previously thought. What are you going to do with that information? Will you deny it or embrace it?
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Just blast everything and fly a fast ship. And bring a Wookiee. Works for me.
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Have you learned nothing from this journey? Magic is a drug. You can't just go around eating everything that sparkles.
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Good. Because we were thinking of a place kind of like this one in Oregon." Atticus had already told his attorney, Hal Hauk, to find a suitable place near or in the Willamette Valley."
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What's the point of fighting for your friends' lives and stuff if you don't live your life with them?>
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