I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.

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Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

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If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a sp... by Brent Weeks

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

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..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.

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Life is nothing in itself. It’s a place marker that proves who’s winning, and we are the winners. We are always the winners. There is nothing but the winning. Even winning means nothing. We win because it’s an insult to lose. The ends don’t justify the means. The means don’t justify the ends. There is no one to justify to. There is no justice.” ~ Durzo Blint

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Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

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Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness. by Brent Weeks

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

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Love is not a whim. Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years. Love is a choice wedded to action, my husband, and I choose you, and I will choose you every day for the rest of my life.

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Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing. by Brent Weeks

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

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You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it by Brent Weeks

You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it

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You have to be a little bad to make history. by Brent Weeks

You have to be a little bad to make history.

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Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

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If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything. by Brent Weeks

If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.

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You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.

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What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

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Love is a madness. Love is Failer - Durzo Blint by Brent Weeks

Love is a madness. Love is Failer - Durzo Blint

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If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m n... by Brent Weeks

If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.

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Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.

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Let me make this real simple. You will not break me. The hole will not break me. I will not break. I will not be broken.

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How can one love the light and live in darkness? by Brent Weeks

How can one love the light and live in darkness?

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one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be... by Brent Weeks

one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.

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