Margaret Weis Quotes

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• Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

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  Heart, Silence, Trying

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• In a world of unlimited possibilities, there is always the possibility that there are no possibilities.

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  World, Possibility, Unlimited Possibilities

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• Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world that he has none.

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  Men, World, Needs

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• A mage's soul is forged in the crucible of the magic

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  Soul, Crucible, Magic

  Margaret Weis (2011). “The Soulforge: The Raistlin Chronicles, Volume One”, p.14, Wizards of the Coast

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• Be the hero of your own life. Don't let somebody else play that role. (Vasu)

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  Hero, Play, Roles

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• You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.

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  Blow, Fire, Water

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• You know," he said with unusual somberness, "I asked my father once why kenders were little, why we weren't big like humans and elves. I really wanted to be big," he said softly and for a moment he was quiet. "What did your father say?" asked Fizban gently. "He said kenders were small because we were meant to do small things. 'If you look at all the big things in the world closely,' he said, 'you'll see that they're really made up of small things all joined together.' That big dragon down there comes to nothing but tiny drops of blood, maybe. It's the small things that make the difference.

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  Father, Dragons, Blood

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2006). “Dragonlance Chronicles”

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• Truth wasn't something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope to see was a tiny part of it. And to see that part and to mistake it for the whole was to make of Truth a lie.

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  Mistake, Lying, Tiny

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• Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to keep away the darkness. We don't see that the darkness has a purpose — though we may not understand it — and so, in our terror, we end up burning down the house!

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  Children, Night, Light

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2011). “Time of the Twins: Legends, Volume One”, p.451, Wizards of the Coast

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• My dragon? save anybody? you must have have him confused with someone else- Smaug perhaps?.

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  Confused, Dragons, Zifnab

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• A 'why' is a dangerous thing... It challenges old, comfortable ways, forces people to think about that they do instead of just mindlessly doing it. (Haplo) ... I think the danger is not so much in asking the 'why' as in believing you have come up with the only answer. (Alfred)

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  Believe, Thinking, People

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• A man with nothing to die for has even less for which to live.

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  Men, Dies

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• I have sinned enough against the world. Teaching magic to a kender would ensure my damnation. —Raistlin Majere

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  Teaching, Magic, Damnation

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• Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it." "Are you saying we shouldn't hope?" "I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open!

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  Horse, Eye, Reality

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• I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.

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  Character, Science, Artist

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• His love for her was a gift he gave her daily, expecting nothing in return. He walked at her side, his love for her a torch to guide her footsteps along the dark path she walked.

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  Dark, Torches, Love For Her

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2011). “Dragons of a Fallen Sun: War of Souls Trilogy, Volume One”, p.34, Wizards of the Coast

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• The heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

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  Heart, Trying, Doe

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• Hope is the denial of reality.

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  Hope, Reality, Denial

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2009). “Dragons of the Dwarven Depths: Lost Chronicles, Volume One”, p.22, Wizards of the Coast

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• In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out.

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  Book, Character, Writing

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• Interesting." Raistlin coughed the word. Tanis glanced at him sharply. "What is interesting?" "I've never heard you lie before, Half-Elf," Raistlin said softly. " I find it...quite...fascinating.

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  Lying, Interesting, Half

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2006). “Dragonlance Chronicles”

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• If I am to be judged by those who come after me, let me be judged for the truth.

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  Let Me, Ifs, Judged

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• Why you decrepit old mage! You couldn't turn water into ice in the dead of winter!

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  Winter, Ice, Water

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2006). “Dragonlance Chronicles”

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• The blade must past threw the fire, else it breaks.

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  Past, Fire, Break

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• Well! I had the most fantastic dream! Trees crying blood. Horrible dead elves going around and killing people! Raistlin wearing black robes! It was the most incredible thing! And you were there, Sturm. Laurana and Flint. And everyone died! Well, almost everyone. Raistlin didn't. And there was a green dragon-' Tasslehoff stopped. What was wrong with his friends? Their faces were pale, their eyes wide.

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  Dream, Eye, Wearing Black

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (1985). “Dragons of Winter Night”, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got it

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  Mother, Butlers, Grades

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