Christopher Paolini quotes
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“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”
-- Christopher PaoliniSource : Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1032, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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“Without fear there cannot be courage.”
-- Christopher PaoliniSource : "Dragons Get a Modern Image Makeover". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. January 27, 2007.
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“A negative outlook is more of a handicap than any physical injury.”
-- Christopher PaoliniSource : Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.932, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
-- Christopher PaoliniSource : Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.237, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.”
-- Christopher PaoliniSource : Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.210, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
-- Christopher PaoliniSource : Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1756, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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“Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do”
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“The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.”
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“I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.”
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“Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and the one that they regard the least. Ask them about swordplay and they can list every blow from a duel a month old, but ask them to solve a problem or make a coherent statement and... well, I would be lucky to get more than a blank stare in return.”
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“Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.”
-- Christopher PaoliniSource : Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1979, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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“It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.”
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“Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end”
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“The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.”
-- Christopher PaoliniSource : Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1644, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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“What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life”
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“The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.”
-- Christopher PaoliniSource : Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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“First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... . Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. Consider none your superior whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly, or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen.”
-- Christopher PaoliniSource : "Eragon". Book by Christopher Paolini, 2003.
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“It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.”
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“People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.”
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“Magic is the art of thinking, not strength or language.”
-- Christopher PaoliniSource : Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1024, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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“On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss.”
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“Wise? No, I simply learned to think.”
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“Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?”
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“Let'sss just kill him," said the shorter Ra'zac. "He has caused us much grief." The taller one ran his finger down his sword. "A good plan. But remember, the king's instructions were to keep them alive." -from Eragon, Chapter Title: The Ra'zac's Revenge.”
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“It never struck me as interesting that I didn't go to school - we had our own little world. I always thought of kids who were going to regular school as if they're the others, the separate ones.”
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“The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart. ...”
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“A good compromise leaves everyone angry.”
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“Of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. That's your most powerful tool to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness.”
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“There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.”
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“Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry”
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“Life is pain...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something”
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“Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.”
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“Eragon cried out, and in his desperation he reached for Saphira and the EldunarÃ... and without meaning to, he drew from their stories of energy. And with that energy he cast a spell. It was a spell without words... His was a spell of instinct and emotion; language could not contain it.”
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“A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it.”
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“What will happen will happen and I won't waste my time worrying.”
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“Pain is pain. It needs no description.”
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“To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.”
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“Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.”
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“I am the victor. In the end nothing else matters.”
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“For my love, I will wade through an ocean of blood, even if it destroys me”
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“I have a new name for pain. What's that? The Obliterator. Because when you're in pain, nothing else can exist. Not thought. Not emotion. Only the drive to escape the pain. When it's strong enough, the Obliterator strips us of everything that makes us who we are, until we're reduced to creatures less than animals, creatures with a single desire and goal: escape. A good name, then.”
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“Wind howled throught the night, carrying the scent that would change the world.”
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“When someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more determined to find out the truth. I hate being ignorant. For me, a question unanswered is like a thorn in my side”
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“As they spread out their blankets, Saphira commented with satisfaction, We are becoming more powerful, Eragon, both of us. Soon no one will be able to stand in our way. Yes, but which way shall we choose? Whichever one we want, she said smugly, settling down for the night.”
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“Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.”
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“I didn't think I would ever meet a noble who wasn't corrupt. Now that I have, I find that I prefer them when they're greedy bastards. (Brom to Eragon)”
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“We are about to change history, said Saphira. We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but what a glorious flight! (Eragon to Saphira)”
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“As a person i couldnt say, although i am well apuainted with tales of his atrocities. every time brom and i crossed paths with him, he was trying to kill us. or ratar, capture, torture, and then killus, none of which are productive to establishing a close relationship" _ Jeod”
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“Congratulations, you've just been promoted!”
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“Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another - and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast - the question remains: should I?”
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“It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar”
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“I'll fight when needed, revel when there's an occasion, mourn when there is greif and die if my time comes...But I will not let anyone use me against my will.”
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“m doing my best" "no,this isn't your best. We shall recognize your best when it appears”
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“I'm healthy as an ox. And you?" "To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking.”
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“These books are my friends, my companions.”
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“Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile." "A what?" asked Eragon. "One who loves books," explained Jeod.”
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“He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!”
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“I agree that it's important to be of a virtuous nature, but I would also contend that if you had to choose between giving a man a noble disposition or teaching him to think clearly, you'd do better to teach him to think clearly. Too many problems in this world are caused by men with noble dispositions and clouded minds.”
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“I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.”
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“Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us. - Valdr”
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“Characters are born from necessity.”
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“I cannot prove that gods do not exist. Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity or entities in the distant past. But I can tell you that in the millennia we elves have studied nature, we have never witnessed an instance where the rules that govern the world have been broken. That is, we have never seen a miracle. Many events have defied our ability to explain, but we are convinced that we failed because we are still woefully ignorant about the universe and not because a deity altered the workings of nature.”
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“It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe”
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“Change itself is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful.”
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“A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.”
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“He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women.”
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“Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.”
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“I am not who I was, but I know who I am.”
-- Christopher PaoliniSource : "Inheritance". Book by Christopher Paolini, 2011.
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“Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.”
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“The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will them or not... but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live in memories.”
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“If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.”
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“When I saw Fäolin fall, I understood then that the true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch those you care about being hurt.”
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“Haven't had your fill of interesting events?" "Never. They are the spice of life." She held up her half-finished hat. "How do you like it?" "It's nice. The blue is pretty. But what do the runes say?" "Raxacori-Oh, never mind. It wouldn't mean a thing to you anyway. Safe travels to you and Saphira, Eragon. And remember to watch out for earwigs and wild hamsters. Â Ferocious things, wild hamsters."Â ”
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“In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf”
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“I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.”
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“In El-harÃm, there lived a man, a man with yellow eyes. To me, he said, "Beware the whispers, for they whisper lies. Do not wrestle with the demons of the dark, Else upon your mind they'll place a mark; Do not listen to the shadows of the deep, Else they haunt you even when you sleep.”
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“I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good.”
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“The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.”
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“You must learn to see, what you are looking at”
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“Nothing out of the ordinary ever occurs to me when I'm by myself. But you attract duels, ambushes, immortal enemies, obscure creatures such as the Ra'zac, long-lost family members, and mysterious acts of magic as if they were were starving weasels and you were a rabbit that wandered into their den. Saphira”
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“The debate raged on for so long, at last Saphira had interrupted with a roar that shook the walls of the command tent. Then she said, I am sore and tired, and Eragon is doing a poor job of explaining himself. We have better things to do than stand around yammering like jackdaws, no? ... Good now listen to me. It was reflected Eragon, hard to argue with a dragon.”
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“If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm”
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“To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.”
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“I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past”
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“Life is too short to fight every idiot along your way.”
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“besides, how can you cheat a cheater?”
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“All great fighting is the same, Eragon, even as all great warriors are the same. Past a certain point, it does not matter whether you wield a sword, a claw, a tooth or a tail. It is true, you must be capable with your weapon, but anyone with the time, and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness, and it is those qualities that the best warriors share, even if, on the surface, they appear completely different.”
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“Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?”
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“Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.”
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“If a dragon has already transferred their consciousness to their heart of hearts, then they will die a true death.”
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“Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.”
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“Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.' Eragon said. Why, little one, you just said something wise!'Saphira teased.”
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“He tapped one of the ivory spikes between his legs and said, 'There be as good a way to lose your manhood as ever I've seen'.”
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“Her sculptured face was as perfect as a painting.”
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“If anything happens, I'm going to pin you to my back and never let you off." I love you too." - Saphira and Eragon”
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“From the corner of his eye, Eragon saw Orik hewing Urgal necks with mighty blows of his ax.”
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“With her jaws and talons, Saphira tore through an Urgal.”
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“Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand." "Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.”
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