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Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry

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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LA
California
Christopher James Paolini
Zealotry
Moderation
Wiser
Policy

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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 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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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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The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose.
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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 worry about these things. find peace in where and what you are ~saphira to eragon page 429
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My heart died a while back. [Eragon]
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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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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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The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.
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It's better to ask forgiveness than permission. - Brom
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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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Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.
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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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They have not the heart for this battle. So think of your families, think of your homes, and remember it is they you are fighting for.
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If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm
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You cannot miss what you have never had.
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Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.
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