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No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet.

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Christopher Paolini
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: November 17
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Science Fiction Writer
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LA
California
Christopher James Paolini
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It never struck me as interesting that I didn't go to school - we had our own little world. I always thought of kids who were going to regular school as if they're the others, the separate ones.
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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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The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.
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Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.
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Eragon cried out, and in his desperation he reached for Saphira and the Eldunarí... and without meaning to, he drew from their stories of energy. And with that energy he cast a spell. It was a spell without words... His was a spell of instinct and emotion language could not contain it.
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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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If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm
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A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.
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It s funny to see a hatchling like you beaten by the old one.
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Show respect for those in power, but do not follow them blindly.
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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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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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To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.
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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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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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The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.
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If you don't make a few ememies now and then, you're a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to see his reaction. Oh, he was angry! - Angela to Eragon
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Better to die than to live in fear.
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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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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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