Source: Fourth Realm Trilogy (2005-2009), The Traveler (2005), Ch. 31
“Anton Chekhov wrote that “one must not put a loaded rifle on stage if no one is thinking of firing it.” Good drama requires spare and purposive action, sensible linking of potential causes with realized effects. Life is much messier; nothing happens most of the time. Millions of Americans (many hotheaded) own rifles (many loaded), but the great majority, thank God, do not go off most of the time. We spend most of real life waiting for Godot, not charging once more unto the breach.”
"Speaking of Snails and Scales", p. 345
Dinosaur in a Haystack (1995)
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Which I thought was very appropriate.
On reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last book of the Harry Potter series, as quoted in "Daniel Radcliffe" by Chris Norris in Details (October 2008) http://men.style.com/details/blogs/thegadabout/2008/09/daniel-radcliff.html

Narrator, p. 351
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Tiger (1997)

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Seventy Resolutions (1722-1723)

Sadhana - spiritual practice
Source: "I am That." P.74.

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.”

“I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.”
Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)