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Don't defoul the air. It ill becomes you. - Oromis

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Christopher Paolini
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: November 17
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Science Fiction Writer
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Christopher James Paolini
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When I saw Fäolin fall, I understood then that the true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch those you care about being hurt.
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But anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness.
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Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.
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Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.
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It is foolish to conjure up woe where none exists.
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Really! Between you and Eragon, I seem to spend most of my time among the Varden healing people to silly to realize they need to avoid getting chopped into tiny little pieces
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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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And the ship sailed onward, gliding serenely down the moonlit river toward the dark lands beyond.
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Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.
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Better to die than to live in fear.
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A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to. A man who yearns for war, a man who enjoys his killing, he is a brute and a monster. No matter how much glory he wins on the battlefield, that cannot erase the fact that he is no better than a rabid wolf who will turn on his friends and family as soon as his foes.
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Engaged in a fiery dance, their bodies were linked and seperated by the flashing blades. At times they nearly touched, taut skin only a hair's breadth away, but then momentum would whirl them apart, and they would withdraw for a second, only to join again. Their sinuous forms wove together like twisting ropes of windblown smoke.
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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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Of course you like him everyone enjoys flattery.
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For her, choices were simple either there was an action she could take to improve the situation, in which case she took it, or there was not, and everything else said on the subject was so much meaningless noise.
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Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.
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It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.
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He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!
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It s funny to see a hatchling like you beaten by the old one.
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Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.
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