"To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife."

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Source : R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.96, The Overlook Press

R. Scott Bakker

#Knives Quotes #Madness Quotes #Indulge Quotes

“The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces.”
“You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.”

Source : Scott Spencer (2010). “Endless Love”, p.143, Open Road Media
“I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming out. Unless you're number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.”
“Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.”
“I got a man cave. I play my music loud. I bought big speakers because I need to hear music loud.”
“Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.”
“My last sort of crisis was about overcoming the people who were more interested in what I had done than what I was doing in the present.”
“I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I'd work for the Klan.”

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