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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.

Christopher Paolini

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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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...life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop agonizing over it.... You're making my scales itch. Saphira, from Eragon
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Don't defoul the air. It ill becomes you. - Oromis
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Why?' - Nasuada 'You know why' - Murtagh
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You cannot miss what you have never had.
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Show respect for those in power, but do not follow them blindly.
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I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.
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Do not dwell on what once was, but rather look forward and ponder how you can make the future brighter
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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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Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write.
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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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Never ask an elf for help they might decide your better off dead, eh? (Orik) (Eldest) (Page 207)
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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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Some troubles no one else should have to endure,especially not those you love.
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do not worry about these things. find peace in where and what you are ~saphira to eragon page 429
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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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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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He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while.
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