Scott Lynch quotes

When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players. (Scott Lynch)
I can't name the poison that's killing your friend. But the one that's killing you is called hope. View quote
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When you're a priest, people tend to see the robe rather than the man. View quote
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Advice,” chuckled Doña Vorchenza. "The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage. View quote
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Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common. View quote
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Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it? View quote
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It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery. View quote
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My disinterest in your bullshit is so tangible you could make bricks out of it. View quote
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There's no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated. View quote
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Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind. View quote
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If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes. (Scott Lynch)
You're ten pints of crazy in a one-pint glass. View quote
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Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person. View quote
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As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It‘s not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination. View quote
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You have confused me with someone who knows what's going on. View quote
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Damn it, when will you learn that refusing to admit you've lost isn't the same as winning? View quote
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Only gods-damned fools die for lines drawn on maps. View quote
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I sometimes think that ‘friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet. View quote
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I'm going to give you a thorough examination. This may cause some discomfort, but don't complain. I won't be listening. View quote
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I suspect that drink has made you impulsive." "Drink makes me see funny; the gods made me impulsive. View quote
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Some mysteries are better off with their throats slit. (Scott Lynch)
You simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it. View quote
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You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid. View quote
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You're one third bad intentions, one third pure avarice, and one eighth sawdust. What's left, I'll credit, must be brains. View quote
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I'll wager I would have screwed things up regardless. But... can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming, 'Your cats! Give us all your gods-damned cats! View quote
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