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To fight a war, you must believe it can accomplish something. We fight this one to save John's kingdom, or perhaps even to save all of mankind... but isn't that what we always think? That all wars are useless--except the one we're fighting now?
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Tad Williams |
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Fight and live, fight and die, God waits for all.
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Tad Williams |
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those people who believe in previous lives always think they were dukes or queens or something, ignoring the fact that most people back then spent their whole lives up to their knees in shit before dying of toothless old age at thirty.
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Tad Williams |
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In bad times, a king or a queen can be a rock for the waters to crash against, so those less strong are not washed away. I will be such a rock. Only give me a chance, sweet Zoria, and I will be a rock for my people.
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responsibility
queen
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Tad Williams |
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Go down." It seemed obvious. "You have to go down before you can come out - that's how these things always work."
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Tad Williams |
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But that is enough of such worrying. The river is waiting, and our hearts must be light, so we can faster travel.
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Tad Williams |
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Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy.
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Tad Williams |
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but sometimes when things go very wrong and even the highest are frightened, innocence is not enough for salvation.
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Tad Williams |
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Johnny Battistini had gone to Japan once as a replacement drummer for a metal band past its prime ... a one-shot gig that he had talked about for years afterward. At the time, Theo had been frustrated by Johnny's inability to describe Tokyo and why it had made such an impression on him. Although he spoke about it frequently ... he could never explain his fascination more clearly than: 'It was just ... weird. It's like a regular city, but th..
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Tad Williams |
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Now I end my death song. I give my farewell to mountain and sky. It has been good to be alive.
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Tad Williams |
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Sometimes people need reasons for things, even when there are no reasons. That's what makes people believe in conspiracies or religions - if there is any difference. The world is just too complicated, so they need simple explanations.
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world
religions
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I don't get it," Clarence whispered to me. "We're the only ones in the place. When are your friends supposed to get here?" "Why, bab?" asked the cream pitcher, its top opening and closing like a tiny silver mouth. "Are you thinking about asking one of the waitresses out instead?" The chuckle that followed was a little coarser than the silvery-bell variety one usually expects from invisible spirits. Clarence let out a yelp like a dog whose t..
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Tad Williams |
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If the road to Hell is paved in good intentions, a friend of mine used to say, the road to Heaven is paved with bullshit and busy work.
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Tad Williams |
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Why were men so caught up with their honor, their solemn word, their promises? Half the time the promises were never asked of them in the first place. And yet the wars that were fought over such things, the hearts broken and the lands ruined..!
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Tad Williams |
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Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are only termite hills left but no bush?
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Tad Williams |
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It was only after they had left the bridge and its gaurdian far behind that Theo realized he had left Tansy's telephone-brooch in the pocket of his jacket. He had no plans to go back for it, of course: as far as Theo was concerned, that piece of two-legged ugliness was welcome to blow out Tansy's long-distance bill or download a ton of troll-porn and charge it to the Daisy commune. Betray me, huh? Taste the Revenge of Vilmos!
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Tad Williams |
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Piercing My Hearte there is A Golden Dagger; That is God Piercing God's Hearte there is a Golden Needle; That is me
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Tad Williams |
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What's the light of Heaven look like on earth? Like sunlight streaming through clouds in the tackiest garage sale painting you ever saw. Really, it's so beautiful it's embarrassing. No subtlety whatsoever.
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Tad Williams |
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Every time you open your mouth," Clarence said, "you just seem older and weirder."
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Tad Williams |
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How can you care for a rough man like me?' he asked me. 'How can you love a man who can bring you no lands but the farm a soldier's pension can buy? Who can give your children no title of nobility?' Because love does not do sums, I should have told him. Love makes choices, and then gives its all. Had he seen himself as I first saw him though, he could have had no questions.
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Tad Williams |
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He was a figurehead - an aging CEO of his own family who only showed up for the board meetings and wondered how so much got done without him.
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Tad Williams |
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It was frighteningly close to what he believed of his father at the worst moments - that he really was the kind of man who would send a letter signed "Sincerely, Cpl. Peter Vilmos" to someone he'd seen naked."
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Tad Williams |
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A part of me, of course, was reminding myself over and over and over again that I should never have tried to lie to the higher angels of the Ephorate. Hubris, the Greeks called that. "A dumbshit move," might be a more contemporary way of putting it."
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Tad Williams |
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He turned up the car radio and punched buttons until he found something loud and thumpingly exultant, some piece of jolly stupidity from AC/DC.
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Tad Williams |
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So that's what--one "yes," one "not sure," and one "I had had a dream about a bug."
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Tad Williams |
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Since your father has escaped my justice, it is you who must hear my words." "Words. You keep saying..." "Because that was the gift your father gave to me. And the curse that ruined me as well, changed my life to wretched misery. There are hours yet before the guard comes - nay, eons. An eternity, in fact. This is my time, Miranda. Now you will have your words back: before I kill you, you will hear my tale... and you will know what you ha..
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Tad Williams |
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Thank you for your news, Princess. It is none of it happy, but only a fool desires cheerful ignorance and I try not to be a fool. That is my heaviest burden.
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Tad Williams |
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Do you listen to the wolves, Seoman?" Jiriki asked. "It's hard n-not to." "They sing such fierce songs." The Sitha shook his head. "They are like your mortal kind. They sing of where they have been, and what they have seen and scented. They tell each other where the elk are running, and who has taken whom to mate, but mostly they are merely crying 'I am! Here I am!' "
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Tad Williams |
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A wolf is clever-clever-clever, and they are as faithful as a debt unpaid.
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humor
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If someone had told her that she would be transported to what was for all purposes a magical land, where history could be rewritten at a whim, or people could suddenly be shrunk to the size of poppy seeds, but that at least for this moment, her most pressing concern would have been the absence of cigarettes, she would have thought them mad.
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Tad Williams |
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As I continued through the streets, through the smoke of the burnings and the rubble of the fires and explosions--for during the chaos of the quarantine parts of the city had become something like war zones--my heart began to perceive that there was a wound in the material world that no amount of science could heal, that in fact science itself was only the helpful lie told to a dying man.
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Tad Williams |
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A man whose wisdom is true does not sit in waiting for the world to come at him piece by piece for proving its existence!
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Tad Williams |
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The dragon's blood had changed him, he realized. Not in a magical way, like in one of Shem Horsegroom's old stones - he couldn't understand the speech of animals, or see a hundred leagues. Well, that was not quite true. When the snow had stopped for a moment today, the white valleys of the Waste had leaped into clarity, seeming as near as the folds ma blanket, but stretching all the way to the dark blur of faraway Aldheorte Forest. For a mo..
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Tad Williams |
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But remember this lesson, Simon, one fit for kings... or the sons of kings. Nothing is without cost. There is a price to all power, and it is not always obvious.
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Tad Williams |
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Fear goes where it is invited.
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Tad Williams |
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It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel...
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Tad Williams |
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For all the things we've seen... my goodness, the world still has more to show us, doesn't it?
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No existe lo que se llama "falta de temor", Simon, a menos que un hombre este loco. Doctor Morgenes"
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Tad Williams |
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Un hombre que posee sabiduria no se sienta a esperar que el mundo aparezca ante el pedazo a pedazo para probar su existencia! Binabik
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Tad Williams |
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Los valientes y los locos a menudo viven en la misma cueva, decimos nosotros. Binabik
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Tad Williams |
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Cuando te cae en la cabeza, entonces te das cuenta de que es una piedra. Binabik
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Tad Williams |
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Era un simple punto brillante en la horrorosa tormenta..., pero incluso un brillo solitario puede devolver sano y salvo a un viajero a su casa.
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Tad Williams |
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When you were old, did your memories crowd out your other thoughts? Or did you lose them--your childhood, your hated enemies, your friends?
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Tad Williams |
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Ho! We are being taunted by some sort of otherworldly fireflies. Someone fetch me my rifle!
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Tad Williams |