R.A. Salvatore
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Biography
Robert Anthony Salvatore is an American author best known for The Legend of Drizzt, a series of fantasy novels set in the Forgotten Realms and starring the character Drizzt Do'Urden. He has also written The DemonWars Saga, a series of high fantasy novels; several other Forgotten Realms novels; and Vector Prime, the first novel in the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order series.
"It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them."
"Sane is boring."
"No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith."
"How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world,"I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?"
"Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters."
"If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer."
"Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change.Drizzt Do'Urden"
"Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not."
"But what of faith? What of fidelity and loyalty? Complete trust? Faith is not granted by tangible proof. It comes from the heart and the soul. If a person needs proof of god's existence, then the very notion of spirituality is diminished into sensuality and we have reduced what is holy into what is logical.-Drizzt Do'urden"
"You view the gods as entities without,"Montolio tried to explain. "You see them as physical beings trying to control our actions for their own ends, and thus you, in your stubborn independance, reject them. The gods are within, I say, whether one has named his own or not. You have followed Mielikki all your life, Drizzt. You merely never had a name to put on your heart."
"The gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being. I know not -- and care not -- which."
"We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows."
"...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life."
"First blood is mine.Last blood counts for more.--Artemis Entreri and Drizzt Do'Urden"
"These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These were the companions who fought the helplessness, the rage, and frustration.These were the friends who gave me my life."
", But the streets need cleaning, brother," Gromph said. "That is why the gods gave us magic, brother," Jarlaxle replied in the same smug tone. "To perform the mundane tasks of life."
"I will always love you Drizzt Do'Urden my life was full and without regret because I knew you and was completed by you. Sleep well, my love."
"This, then, was Jango Fett's greatest reward, right here, sitting with his son, his young replica, sharing quiet moments."
"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."