wisdom from fiction

A couple of months ago I listened to Brandon Sanderson's "Oathbringer" as an audiobook. I found myself wanting to be a snob about it (there's plenty of self-important silliness), but I kept thinking "wow, that's a real banger of a line." Eventually I started scribbling them on scraps of paper, which I then promptly lost. But here's a few.

Failure is the mark of a life well-lived.

Blasphemy! Art is not art if it has a function.

Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man who is in the process of changing.