"I think it’s fairly common for writers to……" — Scott Lynch
"I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique geniuses, and the constant fear that we’re witless frauds who are speeding toward epic failure."
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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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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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Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of…
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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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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
— Aeschylus
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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never…
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The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to…
— Osbert Sitwell
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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to…
— Tryon Edwards
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The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets…
— Simone Weil
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The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away.…
— Sun Tzu
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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
— John Milton
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Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees…
— Joseph Hall
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No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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I was wholly at peace, at ease and at rest, so that there was nothing upon earth which could have…
— Julian of Norwich
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you…
— Maxim Gorky
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