"A manâ€™s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint"

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Brent Weeks

#Men Quotes #Treasure Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is to help them find different areas of passion and help them find better ways of coping. Because about 50 percent of people with addiction have a preexisting mental illness, about two-thirds have had some type of severe trauma during childhood, and they are not using to the point where they're risking their lives because it's fun. They're doing something to help them cope.”
“I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.”

Source : "'We Are Young' and Odd Souls: Chatting With Mutemath’s Darren King and fun.’s Andrew Dost". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.
“We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.”
“If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.”
“I'd like to move back to New Orleans.”
“Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper...”
“Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.”
“Why don't I talk about Big Data? Because I am focused on intelligent answers and not speeds and feeds. It doesn't matter if it is quick if it's the wrong answer.”

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