Raymond E. Feist Quotes

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• The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder…
• Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had…
• Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know…
• The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.
• A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.
• Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.
• The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be…
• You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.
• Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.
• Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.
• Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.
• Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.
• But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.
• My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle…
• Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.
• The first love is the difficult love.
• Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.
• I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next.
• I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.
• People like rules, or at least the appearance of rules, even in fantasy.

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