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Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.
Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!
Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
If mortals wait until the gods remake the world to their liking to be happy, they are already in hell.
Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.
To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.
He's stubborn," Tux warned in a singsong tone. "Stay out of this," Mark spat. "And touchy," Tux added.
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier
The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it
I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.
Who else speaks for the Family of Man? They are in tune and step with constellations of universal law.
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.
What's the best way to ensure a supply of good books in the future? Support up-and-coming writers now.
No reader wants to sit through the same scene four times in a row, unless they're radically different.
It's quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate.
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.
Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.
Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.
I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.
There is no central government database that allows officials to monitor water tests by local systems.
There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.
The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?
When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.
I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.
The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot.
Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.
There was a big horror boom in the '80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with.
I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.
Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.
The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.
Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.
We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.
Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one's ego completely for hours at a time is really hard.
I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.
For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.
If you do something for someone else, never remember. If someone does something for you, never forget.
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
What is the answer to this fatigue? Relax! Relax! Relax! Learn to relax while you are doing your work!
The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.