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Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.
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Dragons
Speak
Enraged
Politely
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One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.
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Opportunity
Men
Mistake
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I'd rather be running the game than playing it.
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Running
Games
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I guess there's just a time for doing dumb things.
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Dumb
Dumb Things
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Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.
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Design
Use
Writing
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Plan. Yes. Good idea. I should come up with a plan.
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Come Up
Ideas
Should
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I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.
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Charming
People
Want
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I tend to close my eyes when I look at people anymore.
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Eye
Looks
People
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Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do.
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Can you be serious for two words?" "Not without effort.
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Effort
Serious
Two
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A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
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Men
Ambition
Old Man
Waiting
Young
Young Man
Man
Without
Old
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There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.
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Manners
No Excuses
Reflexes
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Staring into the dragon's maw, one quickly learns wisdom.
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Dragons
Staring
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Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.
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Minneapolis
Removal
Seasons
Snow
Two
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True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.
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Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?
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Preaching
Thinking
Discuss
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What's the point of having weak enemies? They just waste your time.
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Enemy
Waste
Weak
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You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first.
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Firsts
Together
Together Again
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It's just that no one wants to be the one being rescued, we all want to do the rescuing.
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No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style.
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Subtle
Between
Cramp
Wizard
Shoulder
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Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else.
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Action
Goal
Mean
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It wasn't until I was working on 'Tacky' that I admitted to myself that I was writing a series.
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Tacky
Admitted
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No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.
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Knives
Style
Wizards
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The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff.
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Should
Structure
Stuff
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Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior.
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Feelings
People
Please Me
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Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off.
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Direct
Obvious
Appears
Throw
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Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to any extra trouble.
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Enough
Thinking
Trouble
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Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action.
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Giving
Past
Understanding
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All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.
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Agree
Book
Degrees
Reader
Thinking
Consists
Degree
Thinks
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The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.
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Defeat
Honorable
Mean
Reason
Struggle
Sufficient
Worthwhile
Contest
Means
Withdraw
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I’ve heard it said: ‘By his home you shall know him’; and we all know that we must pay attention to anyone who reverses the subject and auxiliary verb in his sentence.
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Home
Attention
Verbs
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It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good.
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Men
Evil
Ideas
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There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.
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Millions
Numbers
People
Sea
Fail
Organ
Poisons
Vital
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The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark.
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Dark
Facts
Found
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He got up and walked out, so I missed seeing the powerful sorcerer doing his powerful sorcery, which would have involved him closing his eyes and then, I don't know, maybe taking a deep breath or something.
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Eye
Powerful
Sorcery
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You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could do nothing. But that is because your suffering has caused you to phrase the question in the wrong way.
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Events
Needs
Suffering
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But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision.
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Action
Decision
Obvious
Two
Allow
Necessity
Great Sense
Options
Recognize
Restricted
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A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.
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Clever
Mistake
Smart
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That's what does it-- that moment where you think you're lost, and then discover that you're not, that you've never really left. There's something that happens in that incredible tiny no-time, and that something is like the revelation of learning.
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Doe
Thinking
Tiny
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Because here’s the thing: No matter how much one tells stories of magical beasts or impossible worlds, in the end, it is always the world of here and now one is writing about. The better one understands that world, the more powerful the stories will be.
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Powerful
Stories
Writing
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I have something to tell you." "How, you have something to tell me?" "You have understood me exactly." "Well, I am listening." "Listening? Then, you wish me to tell you?" "Yes, that is it. I am listening, and therefore I wish you to tell me." "Shall I tell you now?" "No.
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Listening
Wells
Wish
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To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
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Trust
Action
Conform
Conformity
Danger
Eccentric
Fashion
Sake
Understanding
Avoid
Instincts
Seek
Taking
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One nice thing about putting the thing away for a couple of months before looking at it is that you start appreciate your own wit. Of course, this can be carried too far. But it's kind of cool when you crack up a piece of writing, and then realize you wrote it. I recommend this feeling.
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Couple
Nice
Writing
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In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the ones we hated, friends and foes and kin, with no distinction among them. We have to mourn every one of them, because our memories have made them as much a part of us as our bones or our skin. If we don't, we've no right to remember anything at all.
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Lying
Memories
Skins
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The tools are real. The viewer is real, you, the artist, is real and a part of everything you paint. You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you. All you have to do it with is a brush, some chemical and canvas, and technique.
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Artist
Moving
Real
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When I say that life is like an onion, I mean this: if you don't do anything with it, it goes rotten. So far, that's no different from other vegetables. But when an onion goes bad, it can either do it from the inside, or the outside. So sometimes you see one that looks good, but the core is rotten. Other times, you can see a bad spot on it, but if you cut that out, the rest is fine. Tastes sharp, but that's what you paid for, isn't it?
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Life
Cutting
Mean
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There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it's always a desk. There's always someone at a desk, except when it's a table that functions as a desk. You sit behind a desk, and everyone knows you're supposed to be there, and that you're doing something that involves your brain. It's an odd, special kind of importance. I think everyone should get a desk; you can sit behind it when you feel like you don't matter.
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Brain
Special
Thinking
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