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...even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.

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Christopher Paolini
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: November 17
Author
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Science Fiction Writer
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California
Christopher James Paolini
Seemed
Kings
Concern
Importance
Equal
Starlings
Grew
Worries
Worry
Concerns
Even
Smallest

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And the ship sailed onward, gliding serenely down the moonlit river toward the dark lands beyond.
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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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Of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. That's your most powerful tool to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness.
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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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I am the victor. In the end nothing else matters.
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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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Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.
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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 an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe
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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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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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