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R. A. Salvatore

"To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be... It is at those times when we feel we are contributing to that ultimate end... we feel true elation."

Source : R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Siege of Darkness: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.15, Wizards of the Coast

R. A. Salvatore

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“Through music I've discovered other philosophies. Buddhism in particular is one that has always - whenever I've studied it and read about it, it's just been so true to me. And I do try to take some practices of that into my daily life. Whether that's meditating or trying to see the world from that perspective.”
“I suppose some people find their voice later than others, but it's interesting to look back at really early work to see that there's some kernel or a Rosetta Stone, in a way.”
“When itâ€™s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If itâ€™s too easy you have to worry. If youâ€™re not lying awake at night worrying about it, the reader isnâ€™t going to, either. I always know that when I get a good nightâ€™s sleep, the next day Iâ€™m not going to get any work done. Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. Itâ€™s not all inspirational.”
“That's why I'm a success, it's because I don't middle in other people's lives.”
“I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.”
“Every cleric must obey the Pope, even if he commands what is evil; for no one may judge the Pope.”
“To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.”
“We believe that when we choose anything, judge a stranger and even fall in love, we understand the principal factors that influenced us. Very often nothing could be further from the truth. As a result, many of our most basic assumptions about ourselves, and society, are false.”

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