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"We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger."
"Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey."
"You are only a prisoner when you surrender."
"After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the physicists are right, that the physical world changes as it is observed, and we are its only known observers, then might we not be bending the entire chaotic universe, the eternal, ever-active Now, to fit that familiar form?"
"Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered."
"Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead."
"...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce."
"Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start something else. Finish it before you start rewriting it. That's really important. It's to find out if you're going to be a writer or not, because that's one of the most important lessons. Most, maybe 90% of people, will start writing and never finish what they started. If you want to be a writer that's the hardest and most important lesson: Finish it. Then go back to fix it."
"Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent."
"Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger."
"A well-aimed spear is worth three."
"Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy."
"Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery."
"You show me what someone listens to, I’ll tell you everything you want to know about his soul. (For instance, a bunch of Nickelback albums would have indicated he never had a soul in the first place.)"
"If the bears don't get you, it's home."
"Every man is the hero of his own song."
"When your teeth are gone, learn to like mush."
"Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once."
"As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney."
"When it falls on your head, then you are knowing it is a rock."