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Goodreads | Quotes From My Authors - 0 views

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  • “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
  • “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
  • “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
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  • “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” ― Stephen King, On Writing
  • “We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.” ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
  • “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
  • “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • “People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.” ― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto
  • “It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  • “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections
  • “I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • “Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.” ― Neil Gaiman
Sunny Jackson

Book Quotes: What are the best quotes from books? - Quora - 0 views

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Quora Questions Learning

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  • "A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future."Robert Heinlein - Time Enough for Love
  • "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."Philip K. Dick - I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
  • So we dream on.  Thus we invent our lives. 
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  • We invent what we love and what we fear. 
  • We dream on and on
  • And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them… 
  • You have to keep passing the open windows
  • Show me a hero and I'll write a tragedy.
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Goodreads | Quote by Lemony Snicket: A good library will never be too neat, or too d... - 0 views

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  • “A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.” ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
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Quote Book Lord of the Rings

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  • "I do not slay man or beast needlessly, and not gladly even when it is needed."
  • "I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo."
  • "He is bold, more bold than many deem; for in these days men are slow to believe a captain can be wise and learned in the scrolls of lore and song, as he is, and yet a man of hardihood and swift judgement in the field. But such is Faramir. Less reckless and eager than Boromir, but not less resolute." —Beregond
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  • The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.
  • 'When he saw the pale face of Faramir he caught his breath. It was the face of one who had been assailed by a great fear or anguish, but has mastered it and now is quiet. Proud and grave he stood for a moment...and Pippin gazing at him saw how closely he resembled his brother Boromir—whom Pippin had liked from the first, admiring the great man's lordly but kindly manner. Yet suddenly for Faramir his heart was strangely moved with a feeling that he had not known before. Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one of the Kings of Men born into a later time, but touched with the wisdom and sadness of the Elder Race. He knew now why Beregond spoke his name with love. He was a captain that men would follow, that he would follow, even under the shadow of the black wings.' —Pippin
  • "Ever your desire is to appear lordly and generous as a king of old, gracious, gentle. That may well befit one of a high race, if he sits in power and peace. But in desperate hours gentleness may be repaid with death." "So be it," said Faramir.
  • 'She looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark would outmatch in battle... this tall man, both stern and gentle...' —Éowyn
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Wiki Quote Book

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  • Muad'Dib
  • Arrakis
  • Irulan
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  • Hawat
  • Gurney Halleck
  • Thufir Hawat
  • Paul Atreides
  • I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
  • The highest function of ecology is understanding consequences. Pardot Kynes (voice heard by his son during a dying hallucination)
  • Atreides
  • Bene Gesserit
  • Litany Against Fear
  • Gaius Helen Mohiam
  • Gom Jabbar
  • Kwisatz Haderach
  • Harkonnen
  • Mentat
  • Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them. Duke Leto Atreides
  • Leto Atreides
  • Fremen
  • Mahdi
  • Liet-Kynes
  • The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man. from Collected Sayings of Muad’Dib by the Princess Irulan
  • Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it’s a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that’s really chewing on us. Jessica speaking to Thufir Hawat
  • Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles. Victim of your folly. Dirge for Jamis on the Funeral Plain, from Songs of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan
  • Muad'Dib could indeed see the Future, but you must understand the limits of this power. Think of sight. You have eyes, yet cannot see without light. If you are on the floor of a valley, you cannot see beyond your valley. Just so, Muad'Dib could not always choose to look across the mysterious terrain. He tells us that a single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us "The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door." And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation." from Arrakis Awakening by the Princess Irulan
  • What do you despise? By this you are truly known. from Manual of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan.
  • Esmar Tuek
  • Staban Tuek
  • baliset
  • Science is made up of so many things that appear obvious after they are explained. Pardot Kynes
  • Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. The last thought of Liet Kynes before he died
  • Prophecy and prescience — How can they be put to the test in the face of the unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction of the "wave form" (as Muad'Dib referred to his vision-image) and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What of the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife? Private Reflections on Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan
  • To save one from a mistake is a gift of paradise. Stilgar to Jessica
  • The vision made him want to freeze into immobility, but this, too, was action with its consequences. Said of Paul Muad'Dib
  • The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. from Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan
  • It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.
  • Feyd-Rautha
  • Thufir Hawat
  • Chani
  • Jessica
  • Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
  • a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it’s too late.
  • It occurred to Paul then that he had seen his own dead body along countless reaches of the time web, but never once had he seen his moment of death.
  • The eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever.
  • Emperor Shaddam IV
  • Hayt, the ghola
  • the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.
  • It was a time of sorceresses whose powers were real. The measure of them is seen in the fact they never boasted how they grasped the firebrand.
  • Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.
  • Toure Bomoko
  • Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!
  • Mahdi Spirit Cult
  • Tleilaxu
  • Godbuk
  • Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree.
  • behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on your energy."
  • Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.
  • Pardot Kynes
  • There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves.
  • Stilgar
  • He is the fool saint, The golden stranger living forever On the edge of reason. Let your guard fall and he is there! The Ghola's Hymn
  • If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
  • Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred.
  • Tleilaxu
  • Bijaz
  • Often I must speak other than I think. That is called diplomacy.
  • Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality... and fall.
  • Edric
  • palatinate
  • You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.
  • Scytale
  • When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
  • Korba
  • Sardaukar
  • Lasbeams
  • I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void.
  • I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist.
  • Harq al-Ada
  • Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating
  • Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.
  • Arrakeen
  • the Kwisatz Haderach cannot forget
  • Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.
  • Leto Atreides
  • If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.
  • gestalten
  • Babel Problem
  • achieving wrong combinations from accurate information
  • Kalima
  • Shuloch
  • inner outrage against the complacently powerful
  • humans can endure only in a fraternity of social justice.
  • Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the assumptions of trust in the universe, those pronouncements which men have made in search of personal power, all of it mingled with shreds of enlightenment. And always the ultimate unspoken commandment is "Thou shalt not question!" But we question. We break that commandment as a matter of course.
  • The work to which we have set ourselves is the liberating of the imagination, the harnessing of imagination to humankind's deepest sense of creativity.
  • Any path that narrows future possibilities may become a lethal trap.
  • Mahdinate
  • there exists no intransigent opposites except in the beliefs of men
  • Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives.
  • Veuillot
  • Some actions have an end but no beginning; some begin but do not end. It all depends upon where the observer is standing.
  • Not knowing what you said, you said it.
  • The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even exist.
  • It is said that the only fear we cannot correct is the fear of our own mistakes.
  • Often there's no need to tear off an arm to remove a splinter.
  • Ghanima
  • ghafla
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Wiki Quote Book

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  • I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
  • When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.
  • Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero's facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero. And sometimes you run into another problem.
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  • The verb to be does make idiots of us all.
  • You are trying to hold back movement in an infinitely changing universe.
  • I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers. Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability.
  • Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.
  • That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.
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List of literary works - Wikiquote - 0 views

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Reading Quote Book Hogwarts

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  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  • The Bartimaeus Trilogy: The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
  • The Awakening by Kate Chopin
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  • Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
  • The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
  • Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  • Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
  • The Discworld Novels by Terry Pratchett
  • The DUNE Chronicles by Frank Herbert
  • Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
  • Emma by Jane Austen
  • Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
  • The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry
  • Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
  • Grendel by John Gardner
  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  • The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
  • Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
  • I am Legend by Richard Matheson
  • The Iliad of Homer by Alexander Pope
  • Inferno by Dante Alighieri
  • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  • Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein
  • Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  • The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
  • Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
  • Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  • The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
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