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Sword, I name thee Brisingr! And with a sound of rushing wind the blade burst into flame, an envelope of sapphire-blue fire writhing about the razor-sharp steel.
Christopher Paolini
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Christopher Paolini
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: November 17
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The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.
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Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.
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Show respect for those in power, but do not follow them blindly.
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I'm healthy as an ox. And you? To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking.
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Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.
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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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It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.
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Characters are born from necessity.
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A good compromise leaves everyone angry.
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Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry
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The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also much to admire within it, and the more he thought about it, the more he was able to accept the true nature of his self. He was not the best person in the world, but neither was he the worst.
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Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.
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The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.
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In El-harím, there lived a man, a man with yellow eyes. To me, he said, Beware the whispers, for they whisper lies. Do not wrestle with the demons of the dark, Else upon your mind they'll place a mark Do not listen to the shadows of the deep, Else they haunt you even when you sleep.
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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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Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility. Brom to Eragon
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It is foolish to conjure up woe where none exists.
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With her jaws and talons, Saphira tore through an Urgal.
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