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In a hole, in a hole." Skodi piped, ". . . in the ground, in a hole, where the wet-nosed mole sings a song of cold stone, and of mud and gray bone, a quiet, small song all the chill, dark night long as he digs in the deep, where the white worms creep, and the dead all sleep, with their eyes full of earth where the beetles give birth, laying little white eggs, and their brittle black legs go scrape, scrape, scrape, and the dark, like a cape,..
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We were already fucked so many ways they could have dedicated an entire revision of the Kama Sutra just to us.
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When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity - a waste of precious time and effort.
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time
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He was not great; he was, in fact, very small. At the same moment, though, he was important, just as any point of light in a dark sky might be the star that led a mariner to safety, or the star watched by a lonely child during a sleepless night. . . .
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God's Blood, have we truly become old? he wondered. I do not feel old. I feel the same, but . . . weathered. Like a ship that has plowed the same waves for many years. The rigging is slack, the sails have holes, but the bottom is still seaworthy.
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I know, I know, numbers are not what you're interested in, except those of you who are engineers.
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Ah, yes. ''Errors of caution are more likely to be considered at leisure than errors of boldness - but less likely to be considered after a victory.'' In other words, if you are too careful, you are more likely to live, but less likely to win.
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stupid people trying to manage me sends me into acute depression.
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well-armed and fierce-faced, threatening despite their small stature. Simon stared at the trolls. The trolls stared at Simon. "They've all heard of ye, Simon," Haestan boomed; the three riders looked up, startled by his loud voice, "--but no one's hardly seen ye yet." The trolls looked the tall guardsman up and down in alarm, then clucked at their mounts and rode on hurriedly, disappearing around the mountain face. "Gave them some gossip," ..
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Barrick could only stand and watch them go, alone with the tribe of incomprehensible strangers who lived now in his blood and his thoughts.
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Perhaps a heart was indeed like a piece of dry birchwood, and could only take fire and burn brightly once--that any fire that came after would be only an ember, smaller and cooler.
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What is it you want, fairy woman?" he asked at last. "I have dead men to burn and a siege to finish." Ayaminu"
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Tad Williams |
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To je poput reinkarnacije - ljudi koji vjeruju u prosle zivote uvijek misle da su bili vojvode ili kraljice ili nesto slicno, zanemarujuci cinjenicu da je vecina ljudi u to doba provodila cijeli zivot u govnima do koljena sve dok ne bi umrli u krezuboj starosti od trideset godina.
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reincarnation-quotes
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COME AWAY, dreamer, come away. Soon you will witness things that only sleepers and sorcerers can see. Climb onto the wind and let it bear you--yes, it is a swift and frightening steed, but there are leagues and leagues to journey and the night is short.
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Lead the way. Just remember that I'm not a very good climber." "Not very good?" Beetledown laughed. "Like a dog with one leg, to put truth to it."
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humor
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You show her respect. That is a good thing," he said. "Too often it is that men think those who serve are doing it from inferiorness or weakness."
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You dog!" she said, so loud that half the crowded tavern turned to watch. "A few days past the walls of the inner keep and you think your pizzle has turned to solid silver? At least when Nevin Hewney falls asleep on top of a girl, drooling and farting and limp as custard, he doesn't pretend he's done her a favor."
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Los soldados llevan muchas cargas, muchacho, y a veces mantenerse vivo e la mas pesada d' todas
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Tad Williams |
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Existen muchas clases de prisiones. Jarnauga
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That is what I hate about ruling and royalty, Simon. It is living, breathing people with whom a prince plays the games of statecraft.
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Never make your home in a place," the old man had said, too lazy in the spring warmth to do more than wag a finger. "Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it--memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things." --
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Sometimes you men are like lizards, sunning on the stones of a crumbled house, thinking: 'what a nice basking-spot someone built for me.
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That is the problem with rumors," said Avin Brone. "It is very hard to prove that things are not true--much more difficult than proving they are."
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Tad Williams |
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He has about him still a kind of terrible beauty, as dangerously beguiling as the grandeur of a storm rushing across the sea.
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Tad Williams |
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I like people, see, I really do. I just don't like them much close up.
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Oh, please, Barrick, sweet angry Barrick, don't fall in love with Death.
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Piglets and pawprints!" cried Eatbugs, then paused and looked quickly around. He leaned toward his companions. "Let's be off!" he added, his voice a conspiratorial whisper."
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You dream too much, child. Our kind, we make our way with strong backs and closed mouths.
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Now, ten or more years later, far away from her home or even any thought of having a home, she again touched the feeling from that long ago day, being alone but not lonely, of being solitary yet sufficient.
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security
sentimental
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Briony's ladies-in-waiting kept their distance, as though their mistress had some illness which might spread--and indeed she did, Briony thought, because unhappiness was ambitious.
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Tad Williams |
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Besides, there was always hope, wasn't there?
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If you pull a single thread away it is just that--a single thread. I defy any man to read a tapestry from a solitary strand.
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Tad Williams |
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Oh, the Ocean is a question But the River is an answer With her rollicking and frolicking As fine as any dancer
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As Simon sat looking at the words his newfound resolve was tested; he felt a wave wash through him, a staggering ocean breaker of remorse and fear, and a feeling of things that, though unseen, were nonetheless slipping heartbreakingly away.
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Were all these castle folk in their ornate finery no more than confused souls hiding inside costumes, as the hard shells of snails protected the helpless, naked things that lived within them?
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Tad Williams |
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You took your shot. It didn't work out. Now you get to do laundry. That's what life is shaped like.
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Tad Williams |
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Make Philosophy your evening guest, but do not let her stay the night.
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The wise man is not waiting for the realness of the world to prove itself to him. How can one be an authority before the experiencing of this realness? My master taught me--and to me it seems chash, meaning correct--that you must not defend against the entering of knowledge.
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Strip off the branches and make the logs smooth," the quail said in the voice of a mischievous girl-child. "Didn't your mother and father teach you anything?" Paul stared. It was not the strangest thing he had encountered, but it was still a bit surprising. "Who are you?" She made a little chirping sound of amusement. "A quail! What do I look like?" He nodded his head, conceding the point. "And you know how to build a raft?" "Better than yo..
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Tad Williams |
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no other bosses but mine and my opponents' can have your soul jerked out of your body and sent to the deepest fiery pits to suffer for eternity. Unless you work for Walmart.
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Tad Williams |
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forgive those assembled for any damnable, prideful foolishness that might be spoken here. We are Your children.
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Jongleur's eyelids slid up and he turned to regard them. Renie wondered if her own sim face would register a guilty flush. "If you have the energy to whisper like schoolchildren," he said, "then you no doubt have the strength to begin walking again." He pushed himself upright and began to limp down the path."
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The manchildren, the mortals, have many ideas of what happens after they die, and wrangle about who is right and who is wrong. These disagreements often come to bloodshed, as if they wished to dispatch messengers who could discover the answer to their dispute. Such messengers, as far as I know of mortal philosophy, never return to give their brethren the taste of truth they yearn for.
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Tad Williams |
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Listen. We have always had Sacrifices and they have always done their duty without question. But in the days and years ahead, we need something different. We need Builders
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