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That your solution to everything? Cut somebody's throat?” "Always slows them down. (Glen Cook)
The world sure isn't kind to the man who tries to be gentle and thoughtful. View quote
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I felt wonderfully wicked. I always do when I frustrate overly powerful, responsible-to-no-one types who think all existence was created only for their pleasure and exploitation. View quote
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Though not as bad as most, he was going through that stage where he knew everything worth knowing and nothing his elders said-particularly if it bore any vaguely education hue-was worth hearing. He could not help that. It went with the age. And I was my age and could not help saying things I knew would do no good. View quote
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A sign of advancing age. You start obsessing about how much you have to get done in the time that you have left. View quote
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He was a lawyer before he worked his way up to pimping. View quote
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Ever since childhood I have suspected you get along better if you respect people's ways and wishes regardless of your apparent relative strengths. That doesn't mean you let people walk on you. It doesn't mean you eat their pain for them. You need to demand respect for yourself, too. View quote
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I sped a prayer heavenward. God needs to be reminded. View quote
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Fickle folk. A little hunger and stress and they forgot all about liberty. View quote
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"I've been on my own before, Mather.” And I hadn't been happy a moment. But happiness is a fleeting creature. It's no birthright. Not anything I expect but something I accept when I tumble into it. Meantime, power will do nicely. View quote
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It is not necessarily for mercenary soldiers to know what is going on. It is sufficient for them to do the job for which they have taken the gold. That had been drummed into me from the moment I enlisted. There is neither right nor wrong, neither good nor evil, only our side and theirs. The honor of the company lies within, directed one brother toward another. Without, honor lies only in keeping faith with the sponsor. (Glen Cook)
Suvrin had a little too much of the politician in him. Too much of the kind of mind willing to let an individual go so the rest will not be inconvenienced. View quote
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The list of cities lost was long and disheartening, even granting exaggeration by the reporters. Soldiers defeated always overestimate the strength of their foe. That soothes egos suspecting their own inferiority. View quote
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She is not one to disdain truth indefinitely only because it is unpleasant. View quote
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I don't think she told any lies. She just forgot to tell the whole truth. View quote
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There were too many secret things going on. And too many perfectly banal, openmouthed evils driven by ambition or fanaticism distracting everyone from the creeping apocalypse. View quote
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"We're still the Black Company. We still don't leave our own behind.” Which was never strictly true but you do have to serve an ideal the best you can, lest it become debased. A law as ancient as coinage itself says bad money will drive out good. The same is true of principles, ethics and rules of conduct. If you always do the easier thing, then you cannot possible remain steadfast when it becomes necessary to take a difficult stand. You must do what you know to be right. And you do know. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred you do know and you are just making excuses because the right thing is so hard, or just inconvenient. View quote
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She had a full measure of youth's indifference to the past. View quote
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You might have noticed that the human animal is fond of forming and clinging to prejudices, remaining their steadfast curator in the face of all reason and contradiction. View quote
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Bomanz had lived his lies so long he often lied to himself. View quote
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The light overcame the shadow. But as always, the shadow left its taint on the victors. (Glen Cook)
How to argue with sociopathic reasoning? Lisa was the heart of Lisa's universe. Other people existed only to be exploited. View quote
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Smeds did not like it. It was getting complicated. He did not like things complicated. Trying to untangle them usually made things worse. View quote
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Time has a way of blunting the sharpest edge of determination. View quote
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I must be driven. I figured that as long as I had to stay out there I ought to keep scouting around. Working in my sleep. Ought to have the Old Man double my pay. How much is two times a stab in the back? View quote
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