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• Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.

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  Heart, Doctors, Eyebrows

  Tad Williams (2005). “The Dragonbone Chair: Book One of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn”, p.50, Penguin

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• Our lives aren't even about doing real things most of the time. We think and talk about people we've never met, pretend to visit places we've never actually been to, discuss things that are just names as though they were as real as rocks or animals or something. Information Age - Hell it's the Imagination Age. We're living in our own minds. No, she decided as the plane began its steep descent, really we're living in other people's minds.

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  Real, Thinking, Animal

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• THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying and completely believable. As with all the very best books in our field, it's not the fantasy trappings (wonderful as they are) that make this novel so good, but what the author has to say about true, common things, about ambition and failure, art, love, and loss.

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  Art, Humorous, Book

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• Has everyone gone mad?” “Everyone was mad already, my lady,” Cadrach said with a strange, sorrowful smile. “It is merely that the times have brought it out in them.

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  Mad, Gone, Strange

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• Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.

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  Sunset, Light, Sunrise

  Tad Williams (2010). “Shadowrise: Volume Three of Shadowmarch”, p.396, Penguin

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• If God is all-powerful, then the Devil must be nothing more than a darkness in the mind of God. But if the Devil is something real and separate, than perfection is impossible, and there can be no God... except for the aspirations of fallen angels.

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  Religious, Powerful, Real

  Tad Williams (2000). “Otherland 3: Mountain of Black Glass”, p.84, Penguin

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• Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent.

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  Inspirational, Dance, Dancing

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• You have to go down before you can come out — that’s how these things always work.

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  Tad Williams (1998). “Otherland: City of Golden Shadow”, p.144, Penguin

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• People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

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  Average, People, What If

  Tad Williams (1998). “Otherland 2: River of Blue Fire”, p.21, Penguin

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• The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.

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  Wisdom, Appreciate, Grandparent

  Tad Williams (1998). “Otherland: City of Golden Shadow”, p.109, Penguin

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• Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.

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  Princess, Hero, Survival

  Tad Williams (2005). “The Stone of Farewell: Book Two of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn”, p.45, Penguin

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• He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had

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  Losing Friends, Strange, Mets

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• So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.

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  Faces, Finals, Stories

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• Wicked Tribe, Rooling Tribe! is the mejor hacker tribe. Too small, too fast, too scientific!

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  Wicked, Tribes, Hackers

  Twitter post from Oct 28, 2013

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• Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?

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  Cities, World, Nests

  Tad Williams (1998). “Otherland: City of Golden Shadow”, p.88, Penguin

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• Tangaloor, fire-bright Flame-foot, farthest walker Your hunter speaks In need he walks In need, but never in fear.

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  Fire, Flames, Feet

  Tad Williams (1986). “Tailchaser's Song”, D A W Books, Incorporated

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• Dying men think of funny things-and that's what we all are here, aren't we? Dying men.

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  Men, Thinking, Funny Things

  Tad Williams (1998). “Otherland: City of Golden Shadow”, p.98, Penguin

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• The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.

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  War, Men, Heaven

  Tad Williams (1998). “Otherland: City of Golden Shadow”, p.100, Penguin

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• When it falls on your head, then you are knowing it is a rock.

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  Fall, Rocks, Knowing

  Tad Williams (2005). “The Dragonbone Chair: Book One of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn”, p.303, Penguin

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