"You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one."

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Source : Brent Weeks (2010). “The Black Prism: Book 1 of Lightbringer”, p.97, Hachette UK

Brent Weeks

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.”
“First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rusack. In the late afternoon, after a day's march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of light pretending.”
“As the years have gone on and you start to know your character better than some of the writers and directors do, you get a little bit more of a world in which you can say, "I think it would be really great, if this year, her fate wasn't determined by the boys," or that kind of thing. You have to pick your battles and make sure that you've earned the right to talk about that.”
“I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.”
“After enough concussions the head injuries blur together.”

Source : Usenet article, 2002.
“When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother.”
“I was a guest at CalArts. John Baldessari invited me out a few times. I've been there. I've been in Pasadena, taught out at Boulder, University of Colorado. And I've taught in Europe. I've lectured and taught. I've taught at the Ã‰cole des Beaux-Arts in Nigne [sp]. I was there for a couple of weeks, I was there. I've taught all over - in Switzerland, Germany.”
“When I see Messi play, in my opinion, he should win the Ballon d'Or every year. He is an unbelievable player.”

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