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Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.
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waking-up
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Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.
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humor
life
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Glen Cook |
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More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.
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righteousness
right-and-wrong
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Glen Cook |
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Evil is relative...You can't hang a sign on it. You can't touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.
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morality
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Glen Cook |
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Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.
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death
life
wisdom
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Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.
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dreams
poor-people
rich-people
poor
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I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.
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The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.
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religion
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Glen Cook |
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There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.
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good
morality
evil
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No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have n..
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Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.
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If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance.
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In the night, when the wind dies and silence rules the place of glittering stone, I remember. And they all live again.
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post-book-depression
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Glen Cook |
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Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.
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Glen Cook |
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My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.
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Glen Cook |
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Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English.
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writing
resilience
diligence
talent
discipline
creativity
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I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing we are just plain nice folks.
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Glen Cook |
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Consider little children. There are not many of them not cute and lovable and precious, sweet as whipped honey and butter. So where do all the wicked people come from?
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Glen Cook |
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There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. We abjure labels. We fight for money and an indefinable pride. The politics, the ethics, the moralities, are irrelevant.
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history
morality
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I do not want to die, Croaker. All that I am shrieks against the unrighteousness of death. All that I am, was, and probably will be, is shaped by my passion to evade the end of me.
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Glen Cook |
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Best way out," Elmo observed laconically, "would be to kill everybody who knows anything, then all of us fall on our swords." "Sounds a little extreme," Goblin opined. "But if you want to go first, I'm right behind you."
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Glen Cook |
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Water sleeps, but Enemy never rests.
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Glen Cook |
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I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its face and see its wonders, but when I go down, there will be no child to carry my name, no family to mourn me save my comrades, no one to remember, no one to raise a marker over my cold bit of ground.
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Glen Cook |
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I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.
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Glen Cook |
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I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.
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past-and-present
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Glen Cook |
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Only a conquerer bothers to honor a fallen foe.
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Glen Cook |
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I was my usual charming morning self, threatening blood feud with anyone fool enough to disturb my dreams.
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Glen Cook |
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You who come after me, scribbling these Annals, by now realize that I shy off portraying the whole truth about our band of blackguards. You know they are vicious, violent, and ignorant. They are complete barbarians, living out their cruelest fantasies, their behavior tempered only by the presence of a few decent men. I do not often show that side because these men are my brethren, my family, and I was taught young not to speak ill of kin. T..
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The only exercise I get is jumping to conclusions.
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Glen Cook |
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I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing that we are just plain nice folks.
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Glen Cook |
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Ah, the smell of mystery and dark doings, of skulduggery and revenge. The meat of a good tale.
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Glen Cook |
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Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.
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Glen Cook |
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The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much evil man con conjure by existing.
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fortune
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Glen Cook |
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It is an age lurching along the lip of a dark precipice, peeking fearfully into chaos's empty eyes, enrapt, like a giddy rat trying to stare down a hungry cobra. The gods are restless, tossing and turning and wakening in snippets to conspire at mischief. Their bastard offspring, the hundred million spirits of rock and brook and tree, of place and time and emotion, find old constraints are rotting. The Postern of Fate stands ajar. The world ..
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Glen Cook |
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Combat is fear and management of fear far more than it is organized murder. Those who manage fear best will seize the day.
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Glen Cook |
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There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.
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Glen Cook |
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No one will sing songs in our memory. We are the last of the Free Companies of Khatovar. Our traditions and memories live only in these Annals. We are our own mourners
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You feel guilty. You wonder why him and not me, then you're glad it was him and not you, then you feel guilty. Soldiers live. And wonder why.
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war
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Glen Cook |
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ce65374
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Still, the best augurs are those who divine from the portents of the past. They compile phenomenal records.
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Glen Cook |
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Essentially, the mercenary sets morality aside, or at best reorders the customary structures to fit the needs of his way of life. The
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Glen Cook |
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It was one of those moments in which I become very uncomfortable. One of those times when nothing you say can be right, and almost anything you do say is wrong. I could see no answer but the classic Croaker approach. I began to back away. That is how I handle my women. Duck for cover when they get distressed. I almost made it to the door. She could move when she wanted. She crossed the gap and put her arms around me, rested a cheek against ..
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humour
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Glen Cook |
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In religion, precise truth has almost no currency. True believers will kill and destroy to defend their inaccurate beliefs.
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Glen Cook |
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I cry for a little girl's dreams. I cry because the dreams will not die, though I am powerless to make them come true.
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Glen Cook |
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I was never really a girl, or a woman, or a human being to Raven, Case. Even though he did awful things for me. I was a symbol, an expiation, and when I insisted on becoming a person he did the only thing he could do to keep on serving the symbol and not have to deal with a flesh-and-blood woman.
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