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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #4
    Christopher Paolini
    “After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end”
    Christopher Paolini

  • #5
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #6
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #7
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

  • #8
    “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
    Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #12
    Yogi Berra
    “Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”
    Yogi Berra, When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes

  • #13
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #14
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #15
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #16
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #17
    James  Patterson
    “Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.”
    James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

  • #18
    John Green
    “Real gangster-ass Nerdfighters don’t run from nothingâ€� ‘cause real gangster-ass Nerdfighters can’t run fast.”
    John Green

  • #19
    Christopher Paolini
    “Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very WISE of me.”
    Christopher Paolini, Eragon

  • #20
    “Nothing is perfect. Therefore, being perfect is being nothingâ€� and that's a great way to lose weight.”
    Craig Benzine

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #22
    “Be cautious of bears at all times, even when being mauled by a tiger.”
    Craig Benzine

  • #23
    Brandon Sanderson
    “You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.

    It's really funny.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

  • #24
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Elend: I kind of lost track of timeâ€�
    Breeze: For two hours?
    Elend: There were books involved.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

  • #25
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

  • #26
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Good men don't become legends," he said quietly.
    "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

  • #27
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Breeze strolled over to the table and chose a seat with his characteristic decorum. The portly man raised his dueling cane, pointing it at Ham. 'I see that my period of intellectual respite has come to an end.'

    Ham smiled. 'I thought up a couple beastly questions while I was gone, and I've been saving them just for you, Breeze.'

    'I'm dying of anticipation,' Breeze said. He turned his cane toward Lestibournes. 'Spook, drink.'

    Spook rushed over and fetched Breeze a cup of wine.

    'He's such a fine lad,' Breeze noted, accepting the drink. 'I barely even have to nudge him Allomantically. If only the rest of you ruffians were so accommodating.'

    Spook frowned. 'Niceing the not on the playing without.'

    'I have no idea what you just said, child,' Breeze said. 'So I'm simply going to pretend it was coherent, then move on.'

    Kelsier rolled his eyes. 'Losing the stress on the nip,' he said. 'Notting without the needing of care.'

    'Riding the rile of the rids to the right,' Spook said with a nod.

    'What are you two babbling about?' Breeze said testily.

    'Wasing the was of brightness,' Spook said. 'Nip the having of wishing of this.'

    'Ever wasing the doing of this,' Kelsier agreed.

    'Ever wasing the wish of having the have,' Ham added with a smile. 'Brighting the wish of wasing the not.'

    Breeze turned to Dockson with exasperation. 'I believe our companions have finally lost their minds, dear friend.'

    Dockson shrugged. Then, with a perfectly straight face, he said, 'Wasing not of wasing is.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

  • #28
    Brandon Sanderson
    “...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

  • #29
    Brandon Sanderson
    “You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know."
    "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want."
    "Anything?"
    "Anything that doesn't require doing anything."
    "That's nothing, then."
    "Is it?"
    "Yes."
    "Well, that's something.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker

  • #30
    Brandon Sanderson
    “It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

  • #31
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?â€�
    “Dumb luck,â€� Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance



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