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I've never been helpless, I just have powerful enemies

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Christopher Paolini
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: November 17
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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California
Christopher James Paolini
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When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right.
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Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?
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Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, BAH! just as he would if he were trying to scare someone in a dark hallway.
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It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar
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Your troubles will always bve my troubles,so long as were married.
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Find peace in where and what you are.
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It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe
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The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.
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A hatchling, that is what you are. A hatchling struggling into the world. I may be younger than you in years, but I am ancient in my thoughts. Do not worry about these things. Find peace in where and what you are. People often know what must be done. All you need to do is show them the way — that is wisdom.
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Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.
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Arya.' He looked down the silvery river and then back at Arya, and he gripped the hilt of Brisingr. He was so full of emotion, he trembled. He did not want to leave, but he knew he must. 'Stay with me-' Her gaze darted up. 'I cannot.' '...stay with me until the first curve in the river.' She hesitated, then nodded.
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I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.
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My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I've learned to defend it vigorously, for I am only safe with my innermost thoughts.
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m doing my best no,this isn't your best. We shall recognize your best when it appears
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On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss.
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The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.
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What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life
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To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.
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If he fancied her anymore, Saphira said to both Eragon and Roran, I'd be trying to kiss Arya myself. Saphira! Mortified, Eragon swatted her on the leg.
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But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other miseries stalk the land. If this is the handiwork of divine beings, then they are to be rebelled against and overthrown, not given obeisance, obedience, and reverance.
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