"Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life--keep moving."
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"Lundist held that a man who can observe is a man apart. Such a man can see opportunities where others see only the obstacles"
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"It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war."
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"A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn."
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"I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design."
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"It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh"
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"Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you."
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"I may be running out of options, but running out isn't an option."
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"You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all."
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"We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I’ll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradictions to balance him will soon veer off."
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"If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it."
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"There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends."
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"Hate will keep you alive where love fails"
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"There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone."
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"The biggest lies we save for ourselves."
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"We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths."
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"In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend"
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"Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction."
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"And when pain bites, men bargain. Boys too. We twist and turn, we plead and beg, we offer our tormentors what he wants so that the hurting will stop. And when there is no torturer to placate, no hooded man with hot irons and tongs, just a burn you can't escape, we bargain with God, or ourselves, depending on the size of our egos."
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"Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull."
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