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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." Morgenes had grinned. "That way it will go with you wherever you journey. You'll never lack for a home--unless you lose your head, of course . ."
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Some types of men, Simon, whose minds are very full of thoughts, they are forgetting to speak and act like normal men.
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And here comes The Aeneid, right on schedule," Martine said. Paul looked at her, but if it was a joke, she wasn't smiling."
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If only men would do what they should.
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You were not required to study the Grail process, Ms. Dedoblanco, but I would have thought it worth your while." Wells frowned."
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Tad Williams |
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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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To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity--a waste of precious time and effort.
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Tad Williams |
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I asked that goddess for help, and all we got were these stupid monkeys.
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We go into unknown places." "As do all mortals,"
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Tad Williams |
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Code Delphi. Hmmm. My choice of a code phrase to mark out these entries begins to seem . . . rather Delphic. In any case
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Even the most unpleasant inhabitants of the Edwin Meese Gardens housing project had never tried to shove a basilisk into Ramsey's codpiece.
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Tad Williams |
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But it is only possible to talk clearly about less important things. The greatest truths lie within, always within. They cannot be given. They must be found
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Order. I must find some order. If the universe has none, or at least none we can discern, well, then it is our job to give it some. I have always believed that.
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But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
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John Wulgaru, she thought when she got back. Her hands were shaking. Is that his name, then? Am I the only person who knows that? Or the only person still alive?
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Yes, look," said Martine. "The Other has played his knight."
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And Jinnears--engineers! Who works with machines? Engineers and . . . and techs. Jinnears and Ticks. Renie let out a hysterical giggle. But that means I'm a Jinnear, too--I have a degree and everything. Why didn't the Other make me a killer ghost-jellyfish as well?
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If you spare a dog he will never bite you, but men are not so trustworthy.
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Xabbu was taught by his people to absorb everything the world gives him and then, after sifting out the most important details, to act on them. But he is also clever and supremely flexible. Faced with a new world, he did not try to force it to comply with his expectations, but began all over to learn the rules, without prejudice as to where the information came from.
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Still, it was better than being trampled by teddy bears.
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strange days are upon us. Tradition served us, but now it shackles us.
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The world is a ball of dung and we are the worms that live in it and eat each other.' He turned his back on her, pausing only to add: 'The one who eats all the others wins - but he is still the last living worm in a lump of shit.
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Bhojujik mo qunquc,' as my people say." Binabik made an expansive gesture around the clearing. "'--If the bears do not eat you, it is home."
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Everyone was mad already, my lady," Cadrach said with a strange, sorrowful smile. "It is merely that the times have brought it out in them."
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The Stone Girl looked down at the ground for a long moment, then up at Renie, squinting her pockmark eyes as though against a fierce sun. "Before I met you," she asked with a certain delicacy, "did you sort of . . . fall down? Maybe on your head?"
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I hope not, but hope makes a flimsy armor,
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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." Morgenes had grinned. "That way it will go with you wherever you journey. You'll never lack for a home--unless you lose your head, of course . . ."
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A king's son has nothing but inferiors, each one a potential assassin.
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I shall endeavor to turn dross to purest Metal Absolute: in short, to teach you something.
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Nothing is without cost. There is a price to all power, and it is not always obvious.
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We trolls say: "Make Philosophy your evening guest, but do not let her stay the night."
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Not being stupid is important.
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Ambitious men never believe others aren't the same.
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Perhaps he was a bumpkin; at least he was an honest bumpkin.
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If you have not noticed, we are preparing for war. I'm sorry if that inconveniences you.
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Light, with its handmaiden color, was everywhere.
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Tad Williams |
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No charm is proof against a dagger in the back.
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Tad Williams |
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Things are not always as old songs tell them to be--especially when it is concerning dragons.
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Tad Williams |
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Simple answers to life's questioning. That would be a magic beyond any I have ever been seeing.
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Tad Williams |
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There are three kinds of people--the living, the dead, and those at sea.
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Sometimes doing the gods' bidding required a hardened heart.
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I gave up the love of learning for the love of oblivion--the two cannot live together.
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The last thing a drunkard loses, you see, is his cunning: it outlasts his soul by a long season.
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Tad Williams |
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It was easy to hate if he did not think, Simon discovered.
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