Mark Frost Quotes

#1. WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #8: DO THE RIGHT THING, ALWAYS, AND RISK THE CONSEQUENCES.

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#2. Don't make another's pain the source of your own happiness.

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#3. The point about the whole subject is this: Once you open the top on this thing, the genie won't get back in the bottle.

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#4. Actually, science has determined that a flipped coin is not strictly a fifty-fifty proposition," said Ajay. "Surprisingly, the coin will return to whichever side you're holding faceup in your hand before it is flipped, exactly fifty-one percent of the time.

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#5. Hate wears you down and doesn't hurt your enemy. It's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die.

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#6. WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #13: READ BOOKS TO GET SMARTER. READ PEOPLE TO BECOME WISER.

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#7. Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.

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#8. WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #10: WHEN VISITING A FOREIGN LAND, IT IS ALWAYS WISE TO OBSERVE AND ABIDE BY THE CUSTOMS OF THE LOCAL CULTURE. UNLESS THEY'RE TRYING TO EAT YOU.

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#9. Even more useful, he also possessed some eerily precocious form of sage-like wisdom that allowed him to greet both failure and victory as imposters.

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#10. #41: SLEEP WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPY. CATS TAKE NAPS SO THEY'RE ALWAYS READY FOR ANYTHING.

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#11. WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #16: WHEN YOU REACH THE END OF YOUR ROPE, DON'T HANG AROUND.

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#12. Embrace paradox. Look for patterns.
Beethoven holds the key but doesn't know it yet.
Hiding inside your Shangri-La you might find the Gates of Hell

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#13. We are creature of darkness and light, capable of barbarism and limitless cruelty, and also love, and laughter and the creation of the most sublime beauty. We are both these things, clearly, but which are we more of?

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#14. Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

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#15. West," said Coach Jericho.
"That's me," said Will, raising his hand slightly.
"That's him," said Nick, pointing.
"That's helpful," said Jericho.

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#16. The only difference between realizing a dream and losing oneself in fantasy [is] backbreaking work.

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#17. So being brave doesn't mean you're not scared, then." "It means you're scared, and you do what you have to do in spite of it.

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#18. Words lose their meaning when you look at them too long. 'God.' 'Science.' Meaning.

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#19. Don't get too close, mis amigos. Two reasons: I haven't completely broken 'em in yet. And they smell worse than camel butt.

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#20. WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #5: HEALING TAKES MUCH LONGER THAN YOU THINK. THE BIGGEST SCARS YOU CARRY AREN'T THE ONES YOU CAN SEE.

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#21. The fact that people still talk and obsess about 'Twin Peaks', more than twenty years after the fact, is a great validation for what we thought we had going at the time.

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#22. Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, Ajay whispered.

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#23. Lyle has that same footlocker in his room," said Nick. "And, dude, the

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#24. WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #11: IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW YOU DO IT. IT ONLY MATTERS THAT YOU DO IT.

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#25. A wise man once told me that mystery is the most essential ingredient of life, for the following reason: mystery creates wonder, which leads to curiosity, which in turn provides the ground for our desire to understand who and what we truly are.

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#26. IF YOU HAVE TO HIDE YOUR TRUE FEELINGS FROM YOUR FRIENDS, THEY'RE NOT YOUR FRIENDS.

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#27. everything else out of his mind the way

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#28. Look, dudes, we didn't come this far down the rabbit hole to stop on the one-yard line in the middle of like Nazi headquarters," said Nick. "Did we?" "No, but if you tried, you could probably mix a few more metaphors," said Elise.

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#29. Getting hung up on 'how' is just the stupid part of your brain throwing a tantrum because it feels left out.

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#30. I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have thematic similarities - but 'Paladin' took me much deeper into the intuitive underground. Always bearing in mind Joseph Campbell's Rule No. 1: When entering a labyrinth, don't forget your ball of twine.

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#31. If man could apply half the ingenuity he's exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there's no limit to what he might yet accomplish

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#32. We have two families in life. One were born with that shares our blood. Another we meet along the way that's willing to give it's life for us.

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#33. Do you recognize it? Ajay asked Will. Three other guards started performing exactly the same strange, convoluted, synchronized dance steps, and it spread until twenty of them were moving along, when Will realized: Thriller? Correct!

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#34. He light you possess will burn to the great benefit of this world long after our poor footprints have been washed from the sand.

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#35. The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach.

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#36. WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #15: AN OPEN DOOR IS EITHER A GREETING OR A TRAP. BEST TO DECIDE WHICH BEFORE YOU ENTER.

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#37. Little bitty thing? Dude, you didn't see her go straight-up psycho. She's like a hella honey badger.

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#38. I'm getting tempted to visit the Bookhouse myself. No telling what else you'd find on those shelves.

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#39. In my experience, what defines a crime depends on who's getting screwed.

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#40. We all want answers to the big questions.

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#41. It is not the ink and the paper that matter, but the hand that holds the pen.

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#42. Sometimes an owl is just an owl.

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#43. fiddlesticks" and

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#44. The happier ending is Twin Peaks is still out there. Waiting, watchful, alive. Haunted, full of shivers and delights, a candle glimpsed in a log cabin window, while passing through a few and darkening wood.
Some dreams survive.

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#45. 'Twin Peaks' is a continuing story; that comes from David Lynch and myself.

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#46. The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be bigger than anything I've ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame.

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#47. Beware the inveterate punster, Doyle, it's a sure sign of brewing mental disturbance.

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#48. We have two families in life. The one we're born with that shares our blood. Another we meet along the way that's willing to give its blood for us.

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#49. I'm the white rabbit, drawing you closer to the rabbit hole.

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#50. Scientific objectivity is one of our most deeply held, and crippling, illusions.

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#51. Will, it makes me proud to say that you might just be on the verge of not being a complete idiot.

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#52. What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?

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#53. Check that - I've found the end. Nick, please be kind enough to withdraw your head to a reasonable distance from my hindquarters.'
-Ajay

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#54. Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

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#55. who looked like a kid lining up for the teacups at Disneyland. "You're sure we have to go down through the cathedral to get to the hospital?" said Elise.

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#56. Our minds are wired by nature to detect patterns.

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#57. WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #14: BEING BRAVE MEANS BEING AFRAID AND GOING AHEAD WITH IT ANYWAY.

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#58. #24 YOU CAN'T CHANGE ANYTHING IF YOU CAN'T CHANGE YOUR MIND.

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#59. No wonder tragedy wields the only hammer stout enough to crack the resilient bubble of complacency

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#60. You know the old saying," said Nick. "Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.

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#61. Dude, you're scaring the crap out of me,' said Nick. 'I'm serious, I literally have no crap right now.

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#62. Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

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#63. Barry's of a mind it's better to be silent and presumed a fool than to open your mouth and remove doubt altogether.

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#64. Mysteries precede humankind, envelop us and draw us forward into exploration and wonder. Secrets are the work of humankind, a covert and often insidious way to gather, withhold or impose power. Do not confuse the pursuit of one with the manipulation of the other.

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#65. But if you seek the truth you must approach the unknown. Lean into it. Wait for it to speak to you. Are you willing to pass that threshold?

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#66. I take all the best parts of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and combine them into a whole new service called ... YouTwit-face.

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#67. This explains the running, at least, but how on earth did it happen? Am I some kind of freak? No wonder my parents didn't want me on a cross-country team; I'd end up on Ripley's Believe It or Not.

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