"Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play……" — Scott Lynch
"Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage."
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53 Quotes by Scott Lynch
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A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the…
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Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person.
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Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?
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I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that…
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You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains.
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I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A…
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Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned…
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I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning
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There are only three people in life you can never fool--pawnbrokers, whores, and your mother. Since your mother's dead, I've…
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... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it." "Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows…
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My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.
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I'm not as reckless as I used to be. You know, when I was little.
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they…
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but…
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The worst men often give the best advice.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there…
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