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Quote by David Eddings

“I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen”

Quote by David Eddings

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David Eddings was an American writer renowned for his fantasy novels. His works are characterized by rich imagination and complex character development, which have won him a large following among readers. more

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“The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been.”

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Book:A Place to Call Home

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“If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!”

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Book:Dombey and Son

Source: Dombey and Son

“I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.”

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Book:Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.”

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Book:Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives - but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can ensure that I will catch it.”

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Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“You take insult where none is intended, but if you will find insult where none is meant, then perhaps I should try harder to insult on purpose.”

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Book:The Harlequin: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Source: The Harlequin: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

“A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.”

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Book:The Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wizard of Oz

“It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.”

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Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

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“One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.”

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Book:Waverley Novels

Source: Waverley Novels