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Why did women always believe that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Hot air made them fester and rot and spread their disease to everything else. Better to bury it and move on.

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Brent Weeks
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 7
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Montana
United States
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The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.
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Dad, one of my first memories is of sharing my worry with you about the space shuttle poking holes in the atmosphere and letting out all of Earth's air.
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Let me make this real simple. You will not break me. The hole will not break me. I will not break. I will not be broken.
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Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.
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My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?
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...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith..... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.
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Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
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The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
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The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.
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There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that.... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be.
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You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.
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You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.
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You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.
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If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.
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Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.
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You have to be a little bad to make history.
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A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.
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one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.
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Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint
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