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Against the years all men campaign in vain. (Glen Cook)
Trouble came only where I expected it, from One-Eye, whose motto is that anything not nailed down is his and anything he can pry loose isn't nailed down. View quote
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Like most warlords he doesn't let reality get in the way of his doing whatever he wants to do. View quote
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The road can blunt the most iron will. View quote
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Old folks called the winter a harbinger of worse to come. But old folks always see today's weather as more harsh than that of yore. Or milder. Never, never the same. View quote
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I did not reflect on what my response, as Captain, would have been toward an underling with my present attitude. The Words Immortal are: That Was Different. View quote
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He winced. "You'll start a civil war.” "Not if everybody behaves and minds his own business.” "You don't understand. Priests consider everything their business.”. View quote
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They (i. e., the peasants) could imagine no future more grim than their past. View quote
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It proved to be much farther than I had hoped. It always is when you are running away. View quote
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"We all do that. In every day life it's called making excuses.” True, raw motives are too rough to swallow. By the time most people reach my age, they have glossed their motives so often and so well they fall completely out of touch with them. View quote
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He hadn't been religious. He'd believed that death was it. When you died you were dead, like a squished bug or drowned rat, and your immortality was in the minds of those you left behind. (Glen Cook)
If I had my druthers I'd be twenty-three years old for the rest of my life. Which would last another three thousand years. View quote
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You are a hired sword. A soldier. You should not be playing philosophical games. Not even with yourself. View quote
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Death will find a way. Even the gods must pass. View quote
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He talks big about his goddess getting involved but I won't count on that. I've never seen the gods actually take a hand in mortal affairs. View quote
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I was learning that part of a captain's job is to delegate. Maybe genius lies in choosing the right person for the right task. View quote
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Something he had heard some wise man say. About the three stages of empire, the three generations. First came the conquerors, unstoppable in war. Then came the administrators, who bound it all together into one apparently unshakable, immortal edifice. Then came the wasters, who knew no responsibility and squandered the capital of their inheritance upon whims and vices. And fell to other conquerors. View quote
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All men are born condemned, so the wise say. All suckle the breast of Death. All bow before that Shadow Monarch. That Lord in Shadow lifts a finger. A feather flutters to the earth. There is no reason in His song. The good go young. The wicked prosper. He is king of the Chaos Lands. His breath stills all souls. View quote
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The Radisha kicked over a pile of books. "I've never felt so powerless. I don't like the feeling.” Smoke shrugged. "Welcome to the world where the rest of us live.”. View quote
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Bomanz sighed. A man couldn't get five minutes alone. What the hell did he get married for? Why did any man? You spent the rest of your life doing hard time, doing what other people wanted, not what you wanted. View quote
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I don't get the Kina story. If she died back at the beginning of the world, how could she be giving us trouble for the last twenty or thirty years?” "It's religion, dimwit,” Goblin barked. "It don't got to make sense. (Glen Cook)
You know you're getting old when everything aggravates you. View quote
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This is what happens when you get old. You start thinking. Worse, you start telling everybody what you think. View quote
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Bomanz could not get away from the bird, who, if he had been human, would have hung out in taverns masquerading as the world's foremost authority, armed with an uninformed and ready opinion on every conceivable subject. His cheerful bigotry and who-cares ignorance drove the old man's temper to its limit. View quote
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The only exercise I get is jumping to conclusions. View quote
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