Top 100 R A Salvatore Quotes
#1. I've read everything that Isaac Asimov ever wrote, for a start. I'm massively into my fantasy genre, anything by R.A. Salvatore or David Gemmell. I've read every single book those writers have written.
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#2. It was a night where the rogue drow felt tiny, and yet grand, a part of something ancient, eternal, and as vast as his imagination and as warm as the love among these five freinds surrounding him ...
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#3. Come gather 'round hardy men of the steppes and listen to my tale of heroes bold and friendships fast and the Tyrant of Icenwind Dale of a band of friends by trick or by deed bred legends for the bard the baneful pride of the one poor wretch and the horror of the Crystal Shard.
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#4. He turned with Wulfgar to leave, but the door burst in before them. "Nice blade, elf!" said Bruenor Battlehammer, standing in a puddle of seawater.
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#5. Sydney, just outside the doorway, was likewise distracted, for the battle between the dark elf and Entreri was unlike anything she had ever seen, two master swordsmen weaving and parrying in absolute harmony.
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#6. So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.
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#7. If this road, this series of stepping stones, leads nowhere, then so be it. I walk the road with friends, and so I have my home. - Drizzt Do'Urden
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#8. In any honest analysis, change is the basis of fear, the idea of something new, of some paradigm that is unfamiliar, that is beyond our experiences so competent that we cannot even truly predict where is will lead us.
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#9. More importantly, we reduce the beauty of the universe around us to fit our hopes and to chase away our fears.
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#10. I have heard, as well, by those who have seen Drizzt Do'Urden at fight and at play, that he is brilliant even considering the standards of his dark kin.
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#11. I don't like the sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating. And it gets everywhere.
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#12. A king is a man strong of character and conviction who leads by example and truly cares for the suffering of his people,not a brute who rules simply because he is the strongest.
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#13. And the real thing can kill you whether you believe in it or not.
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#14. I am Brister Fendlestick. Velcome to my hoomble home!
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#15. Our conscience is our salvation. Our questioning of everything, of right and wrong, of action and consequence, is what defines our purpose.
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#16. There is no way of truly knowing where a road will lead until it is walked.
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#17. Because everything of value that we will know in this life comes from our relationships with those around us. Because there is nothing material that measures against the intangibles of love and friendship.
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#18. Comen out, leetle rodents," the human called in a language that the companions could not understand. The wizard reiterated the request in another tongue, then in drow, and then in two more unknown tongues, and then in svirfneblin. He continued on for many minutes,
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#19. Drizzt halted before the throne and bowed low. The sight of Regis standing beside the wizard disturbed him more than a little,
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#20. We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise last but a few minutes.
But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally.
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#21. Drizzt swung a long and heavy halberd, a polearm more than twice his height, in a slow arc. For all of Drizzt's attempts to keep the weapon under control, its momentum spun his tiny frame right to the ground.
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#22. He who remains alive, remains alive to write the histories in a light favorable to him and his cause.
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#23. I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.
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#24. All of his life had been filled with crashing ends to promising beginnings.
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#26. Only with the honest knowledge that one day I will die can I ever truly begin to live.
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#27. Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.
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#28. Only when we admit to our failures and recognize our weaknesses can we rise above them.
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#29. We like to keep what's our own to keep, especially from little thieves with little fingers and big mouths.
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#30. Richness, in the final measure, is not weighed in gold coins, but in the number of people you have touched, the tears of those who mourn your passing, and the fond remembrances of those who continue to celebrate your life.
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#31. That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.
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#32. I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
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#33. When all is a facade, wound within webs of deception, the truth is what you make of it.
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#34. To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy
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#35. Of all the crowns that Bruenor had worn or would, none was more important than that of Father.
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#36. Play for the day," he told himself. "Win the day, each day, and so you will win the war.
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#40. His words and ensuing actions - fleeing instead of fighting - had indeed put a bit of doubt in the kindly elf's not-so-closed mind.
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#41. We seek goals as if their achievement will grant magical happiness and unending fulfillment, but is that ever the case?
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#42. How often do we allow often irrational fears to paralyze us in our movements.
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#43. For what are we left with if there remains no mystery? What hope might we find if we know all of the answers?
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#44. There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.
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#45. Cats?" Bruenor gawked at Regis. "Ye brought cats?" Regis smiled and shifted his head in his hands. "You know a better way to get rid of mice?
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#46. I know not yet where I hope to go, what challenges are left before me, but I do understand now that the important thing is to enjoy the process of getting there.
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#47. For whatever we do in our lives, discipline and control over our own actions ultimately measure the level of our success.
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#48. Perhaps we will meet again and do battle, and if I kill him, I will shed no tears for him. Not for who he is, at least, but quite possibly, I will cry for who this marvelous warrior might have become. If I kill him, I will be crying for myself.
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#49. How else to explain the accomplishments of a warrior such as Artemis Entreri, who could outfight many drow veterans ten times his age?
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#50. Here have been many times in my life when I have felt helpless. It is perhaps the most acute pain a person can know, founded in frustration and ventless rage.
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#51. I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.
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#52. When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so ... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'
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#53. Without effort, without training and proof that the lessons have taken hold, is to deny the responsibility that
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#54. A nice landing, boys," Bruenor called as he broke free of the fall. "Give the rocks a big kiss for me!
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#55. This is the way of the world, but is is not the only way.
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#56. Independence is what matters," Wulfgar explained. "And it is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us." The
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#57. We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.
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#58. It never ceased to amaze him how most nobles considered themselves so much better than the people they ruled, even though that rule was always no more than an accident of birth.
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#59. Just agree, you stubborn child." "Secondboy!" Drizzt corrected, his voice again a growl, and his arms defiantly back over his chest.
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#60. I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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#61. Is that not the whole point of gaining experience, to use it to make wiser choices, to temper destructive instincts, to find better resolutions?
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#62. Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change.
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#63. When I die ... may there be friends who will grieve for me, who will carry our shared joys and pains, who will carry my memory.
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#64. I don't have to prove my worth and value to any but those I love, and that I do by being who I am, with confidence that those I love appreciate the good and accept the bad. Does anything else really matter?
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#65. The finest leaders are those who listen more than they talk.
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#66. Ah, but would we not all be the fools to attack an armored turtle through its shell?
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#67. Keep him well," the dwarf finished with a wink, and he slammed the door with a bang. "He hates my door," the wizard lamented.
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#68. I am no longer amazed by how quickly a man will justify his change of heart when a spear is leveled his way.
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#69. Sometimes the sweetest juices can be found buried within the most mundane of fruits. Entreri
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#70. Make yer laughs where ye can, little one, because yer tears'll chase ye and catch ye where they will.
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#71. Save us a day and more! Bruerior repeated stubbornly. Wulfgar wasn't convinced.
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#72. I have always found those who take the easier road, when they know they should be walking the more difficult one, to be cowards, Robillard
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#75. Please enter," Kessell said with false courtesy. "Fear not for my trolls that you injured, they will surely heal!" He threw his head back and laughed. Drizzt felt a fool; to think that all of his caution and stealth had served no better purpose than to amuse the wizard!
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#76. A third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes
for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.
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#77. To think that all we've known to be true is not necessarily an absolute is unsettling and almost incomprehensible, and so to walk the road of acceptance and peace often takes more courage than the way of the warrior.
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#78. Sensual pleasures are, or should be, the culmination of physical desires combined with an intellectual and emotional decision, a giving of oneself, body and spirit, in a bond of trust and respect.
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#79. One should also be learning why and when to use a sword. To grant the power of a weapon master to anyone at all,
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#80. One step at a time, and the first of those steps was to defeat the stoneskin, the magical defense that could turn any blade - but only for a certain number of attacks.
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#81. In the course of events, you do what you think is right and proper, and hold faith that such a course will lead to good ends. To believe less ... if this is what I truly hold in my heart and proclaim, then what a coward I would be to deny such a course out of fear, any fear,
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#82. One never knows when one might walk into a tale. - Ardaz
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#83. This, then, was Jango Fett's greatest reward, right here, sitting with his son, his young replica, sharing quiet moments.
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#84. Escape was impossible. Victory even more so. Wulfgar's only thought and desire at that moment was to be spared the indignity and anguish of lycanthropy. Then Drizzt entered the room.
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#85. Because when we reach, when we seek that place we have only seen in our imagination, we threaten the order of things, and threaten most especially the place of those who have found a better roost.
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#86. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self-imposed burden, but is not always rightly imposed.
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#87. No race is more adept than humans at weaving a mask of excuses, at ultimately claiming good intent. And no race is more adept at believing its own claims. How many wars have been fought, man against man, with both armies espousing that god, a goodly god, was on their side and in their hearts? But
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#88. If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.
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#89. Drizzt turned and tried to catch him, but the huge man bowled the drow over and continued on. Face first into a tree. Before Drizzt could get over to help, Wulfgar was up again and running, too scared and embarrassed, to even groan.
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#90. Fortunate circumstances do not equate to high principles.
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#92. Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.
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#93. I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.
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#94. Behold Akar Kessell, the Tyrant of Icewind Dale!" he cried. "People of Ten-Towns, your master has come!" "Your words are a bit premature - " Cassius began, but Kessell cut him short with a frenzied scream. "Never interrupt me!" the wizard shouted,
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#95. Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.
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#96. Matron Malice, her belly swollen in the final hours of pregnancy.
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#97. There can be no evil, nor any good, without intent.
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#98. There is a moment when a man thinks he's going to die when he's terrified," Drizzt replied. "Then there is a moment when a man is sure he's going to die when he's outraged. That moment, upon the Luskar right now, is the time of greatest courage and the time when enemies should quiver in fear.
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#99. No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.
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#100. Oh, by Moradin's itchy arse," grumbled Bruenor. "Scratched it, he did, and this one fell out.
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