Top 100 Feist Quotes
#1. I've always been a sci-fi/fantasy guy. My book reports in school, whenever you didn't have to do it on Shakespeare, I did it on, like, Piers Anthony and Raymond Feist.
Jonathan Hickman
#2. I have a lot of love and respect for Melissa Etheridge. I love Joe Cocker, Ray LaMontagne, Feist.
Crystal Bowersox
#3. I made the first Feist album in '98. So at that point, it was my nickname. It was as far as with my circle of friends, and just felt more accurate than two names.
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#4. I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy: David Gemmell, Raymond E. Feist. It's a nice escape from the world. As much as I do love real-life stories, they can often make you hurt in a way I'd rather not hurt.
Henry Cavill
#5. One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.
Raymond E. Feist
#6. People like rules, or at least the appearance of rules, even in fantasy.
Raymond E. Feist
#7. For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend who's a photographer or filmmaker.
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#8. The Empire is all those who live within its borders, from the nobles to the lowest servant, even the slaves who work the fields. It must be seen as a whole, not as being embodied by some small but visible part, such as the Warlord or the High Council.
Raymond E. Feist
#9. why do I want to appear to be drinking more than I am?'
'Make it a habit. Men in their cups are fools, more often than not. And it can be wise to look the fool at times.
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#10. Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people.
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#11. As they walked he glanced sideways and at last asked, "You are the one they call Pug?"
If Pug hadn't already been surprised by what they had encountered, he was now openly taken aback. "Yes," he said.
"I'd thought you'd be taller," mused the Pantathian.
Raymond E. Feist
#12. We saw what we saw. Whether it was a place or a vision in our mind, it doesn't matter. We must act upon what we experienced, so to that end, yes, it was real.' 'Now?
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#13. What you remember, it's real. It doesn't matter how accurate your memory of something is, it is real to you. What you perceive as reality is reality.
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#14. I won't say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is good for my mental health. It's always better for me to be writing than vegetating on some couch.
Raymond E. Feist
#15. I wonder if those who live here get used to this beauty."
"Undoubtedly, Magnificence. It is the nature of man to become oblivious to that which is around him daily,
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#16. I love a question I can't answer. It keeps things interesting, even after so many years.
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#17. I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'
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#18. There was nothing left to fear. He would endure or he wouldn't.
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#19. Fear had driven two enemies into each other's arms and he smiled at that thought. 'They fear me more than they do each other and that is good' he thought.
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#20. Besides, it seems to mee that spreading the doctrine of doing good can harm no one.' Nakor shook his head. 'Would that it were true. Men have been put to death for preaching good.
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#21. I know he hasn't a mean or petty bone in him, but one can err on the side of caution as well as rashness.
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#22. It was an interesting dilemma and with all such dilemmas an opportunity might emerge. 'How best to turn this setback into an advantage,' he wondered silently.
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#25. One time is much like another to death. She comes when she will. So why give over your mind to worry?
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#26. From our birth we are all dying, but some of us finish sooner than others.
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#27. But to speed it along, he needs to know that pain will come. The knack is to not engage the pain, not hold on to it like a treasured thing, but to simply let it pass through and wait until it's gone. It will come less frequently and after a time, be gone.
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#28. There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since.
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#29. I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks.
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#30. Luck is when those who are prepared take advantage of the moment.
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#31. Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.
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#32. Men love their fears. That is why they hold on to them so tightly.
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#33. The saddest part of a broken heart
Isn't the ending so much as the start
The tragedy starts from the very first spark
Losing your mind for the sake of your heart
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#34. On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.
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#35. I've never worried about 'the reader' because there isn't one. There are thousands, and they all have strong opinions, from 'Magician' was the best ever,' and I've gone downhill since to 'The new book is the best ever,' so to whom to I listen? So I write for myself and hope other people like it.
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#36. Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible.
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#37. It's the problem with having a logical mind and giving women the same credit for ability as men, he mused as he dismounted. You can't contrive reasons to keep them safe.
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#38. More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.
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#39. I haven't been living anywhere because I've been on tour for the past two years.
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#40. 'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
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#41. I live and die by puns.
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#42. The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.
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#43. As a kid, I sat transfixed watching Ray Harryhausen's '7th Voyage of Sinbad.'
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#45. But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.
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#46. You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.
Raymond E. Feist
#47. I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I don't write comic books.
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#48. Life is what happens, Magnus, no matter what you expect or want.
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#49. I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.
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#51. I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.
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#52. I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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#53. History is written by victors," said Duko. "But I have little use for history. It is the future with which I am concerned.
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#54. Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.
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#55. When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it's ridiculous to say that now, but it had that kind of, like, piercing straight melody. And then this fist-pumping ending, you know that pa-dap-pada.
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#56. I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case.
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#57. Some love comes like the wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness. - Carline
Raymond E. Feist
#58. she fills a dark and cold place within me as no one else has."
"If it is still dark and cold when she is not with you, it is not truly filled.
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#59. in kings people overlook and forgive behaviour they would not tolerate in others.
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#60. There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.
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#61. Mostly I'm writing about people, so I feel constrained to take with me my view of people, my curiosity about how people choose the things they do and why they come to certain decisions in a certain fashion and all the things that drive most writers.
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#62. We'll never again be the boys we once were, Tomas. But we've become so much more than we dreamed.
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#63. Find where the sound ends and silence begins. Then exist in that moment, for there will you find your secret centre of being, the perfect place of peace within yourself.
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#64. 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 when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.
Raymond E. Feist
#65. My father used to say, "a day spent breathing is a good day
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#66. A year's a long time, but it also flickers past in no time at all.
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#67. You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.
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#68. He reminded himself as he turned another corner - glancing automatically into the shadows to see if anyone lurked there - the deed was the thing, not the praise.
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#70. Your human gods love to present you with such riddles and challenges, or so it has seemed to me for most of my life ... You often seem to prefer difficult choices when simple alternatives are available; it is a constant source of amazement to my kind.
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#71. It was something he had never quite understood about himself. He had seen thousands of men die in nearly ten years of war and could look on it at times with a near-total detachment, but an animal suffering - be it a horse or needra injured in battle, or the stag now dying - moved him deeply.
Raymond E. Feist
#73. I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.
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#74. ATLANTA NIGHTS is sure to please the reader who enjoys this sort of thing.
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#75. power is limited to the strength of will within the man who holds it. Falter in your resolve and you will fall. Remain steadfast and you shall prevail. Always remember that. 'Come,
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#77. Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go.
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#78. In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored.
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#79. He likes to humble our foes by making them seem ridiculous. As he said to me the other day, 'Kill a man, and you cede him honor in the eyes of the gods. Laugh at him and you shame him'.
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#80. There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.
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#81. All the girls who have photos of them at parties, like, "Woo!" - that's what someone's going to see of their grandma.
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#82. Probably, on some subconscious level, I was motivated by not wanting to spoon-feed any similar flavors.
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#83. I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.
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#84. The universe collapsed and came crashing down upon them. It
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#85. A shrieking battle cry echoed on the wind, a spine-tingling scream that sounded like the baying of the wolves closing in on their prey.
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#86. No matter how canny you think you are, something can come along, bam, and put you on your prat.
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#87. The trick to not being discovered until it is too late is to become part of the expected surroundings. Stealth is more the art of blending in with the background than sneaking through dark shadows.
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#88. In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation.
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#89. Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly.
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#90. The faults we see in others never seem as dreadful as those we see in ourselves.
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#92. People will often do imponderable things because of how they feel, not because of what they think.
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#93. I remember doing my mosaics or being in my little hiding place behind the couch snooping. I'd get bored sometimes, of course, but I think that's good for a kid, because it forces you to be creative.
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#94. It's tempting to think of yourself as powerful when those around you are far less so, but compared to the simple fact of existence, to the power of life and how it hangs on, we are nothing.
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#95. Most of us move through life with little chance to learn much about ourselves. We know some things we like and some things we dislike, we have a few ideas about what makes us happy, and we die in ignorance regarding anything profound within ourselves.
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#96. I had a guitar leaning against the wall and I'd squint at it. It was almost like a dog that had been kicked - I didn't think I had anything to offer it.
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#97. Never think taking a life is easy. Do that and in a way they win.
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#98. Remember, never rely on one plan, Tal. Always have two or more in place when you undertake something perilous. If the first one fails, go to the second plan. If the second plan fails, go to the third." "If the third plan fails, Your Grace?" Kaspar laughed. "Then run like hell if you're still alive.
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#99. Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.
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#100. You must define yourself, for no one else has the wisdom to do it for you.
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