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| ccbb13b | Esmenet had loved joking about cocks. She marvelled at the way men fussed over them, cursing, congratulating, beseeching, coaxing, commanding, even threatening them. Once she told Achamian about a deranged priest who had actually held a knife to his member, hissing ,,You must listen!" After that, she said, she understood that men, far more than women, were other to themselves." | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 338480f | Conviction, no matter how narcotic its depth, simply did not make true. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| bc498b6 | Master," Malowebi once asked, "what is the path to truth?" "Ah, little Malo," old Zabwiri had replied, "the answer is not so difficult as you think. The trick is to learn how to pick out fools. Look for those who think things simple, who abhor uncertainty, and who are incapable of setting aside their summary judgment. And above all, look for those who believe flattering things. They are the true path to wisdom. For the claims they find the .. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 38a81b0 | All men recited self-aggrandizing stories, words of ascendancy and exception, to balm the inevitable indignities of fact. An emperor need only repeat those stories to command the hearts of men. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 0b21d28 | Despite all the pain, all the wrenching loss, there is no greater glory than a complicated life. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 5c87ea5 | What comes before determines what comes after," Kellhus continued. "For the Dunyain, there's no higher principle." "And just what comes before?" Cnaiur asked, trying to force a sneer. "For Men? History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang." Shallow breath. A face freighted by unwanted insights. "And when the strings are seen . . ." "Th.. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| d418e0b | He considered the importance of what he was to do, and calmed himself. He felt the dragon's mood and acknowledged it. It was a willingness to accept whatever fate brought, but without a resignation to defeat. Death might come, but with it might also come victory. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| c2036be | All right, me darlings. You heard the Captain. Look around and tell ol'Biggo what you thieving rascals grabbed when you ran for your lives! | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| b76b00b | One time is much like another to death. She comes when she will. So why give over your mind to worry? | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 0dcd345 | A poem to Raymond, whom everybody loves, originally composed on a waterproof smartphone in a sea of love, which was hidden under the pile of garbage that my bum-pals that have no pen names, or pen-pals, or names, for that matter, brought to me as an offering on the 1st of April 1877, exactly 111 years and 7 months before I was brought forth to this world, because some anonymous prophet told them this would bring luck, joy, happiness, food, .. | Will Advise | ||
| 23f6fb2 | Why? Why do you care what happens to scum like them?' De Loungville moved his horse alongside Erik's, so he was almost nose-to-nose with Erik when he answered. 'I don't care what happens to scum like them. You could cut off a piece at a time over a week and I wouldn't give a whore's promise for what it would do to them. But I do care what it would do to you, Erik. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| ee5e164 | Informants can be helpful, but they are never infallible. All tools can break, or be turned into weapons. | espionage the-great-game | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 2aafcc6 | his mind was an enraged animal, bouncing off the bars of a magically imposed cage, and like an animal, he reacted blindly, striking against the barrier again and again, determined either to be free or to die. Hot | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| d0648df | Visnu, Visnu, Visnu Brahma'ya, Brahma'ya, Brahma'ya bakti, bakti, bakti... Aynalar salonunda oturuyorlardi. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 85dfe18 | The columns of mounted men moved forward, passed out through the gates of the Palace of Karma, turned off the roadway and headed up the slope that lay to the southeast of the city of Mahartha, comrades blazing like the dawn at their back. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 8251801 | Death is the only limit to the road you travel. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| a5baabc | I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetically pleasing. The cosmic sweep of the thing - an interstellar kula chain - affirming the differences and at the same time emphasizing the similarities of all the intelligent races in the galaxy - tying them together, building common traditions... The notion strikes me as kind of fine. | democracy difference globalization ideas inspirational | Roger Zelazny | |
| 705c086 | Time means a lot to me, paperwork wastes it, and I have always been a firm believer in my right to do anything I cannot be stopped from doing. Which sometimes entails not getting caught at it. This is not quite so bad as it sounds, as I am a decent, civilized, likable guy. So, shading my eyes against the blue and fiery afternoon, I began searching for ways to convince the authorities of this. Lying, I decided, was probably best. | authority liberty | Roger Zelazny | |
| 1113469 | You leap too quickly to his defense. It reveals his true attitude, of which he has doubtless made you aware. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| e0a1e0f | Collins and Morales represent a segment of society which, if attacked with the weapons society sanctions, one finds buffered by innumerable layers of law, bureaucracy, lies, evasions. They rest secure within their palaces, confident that they possess defenses against all possible attacks within the rules of the game, yet willing to violate those rules themselves. ... We both know that although it is not listed in the rules, a player can end.. | bureaucracy inspirational revolution | Roger Zelazny | |
| adfe7ba | You are of that tribe with your feet in hell and your head in heaven. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 9be830e | As a student of business administration, I know that there is a law of evolution for organizations as stringent and inevitable as anything in life. The longer one exists, the more it grinds out restrictions that slow its own functions. It reaches entropy in a state of total narcissism. Only the people sufficiently far out in the field get anything done, and every time they do they are breaking half a dozen rules in the process. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 19e3523 | Heredity or environment? I wondered wryly. We were all of us, to some degree, mad after his fashion. To be honest, it had to be a form of madness, to have so much and to strive so bitterly for just a little more, for a bit of an edge over the others. He carried this tendency to its extreme, that is all. He was a caricature of this mania in all of us. In this sense, did it really matter which of us was the traitor? | Roger Zelazny | ||
| f5971b5 | Let there be an end to thought. Thus do I refute Descartes.' I sprawled, not a cogito or a sum to my name. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 8a66df2 | I was not always that way, but perhaps the shadow Earth, where I spent so many years, mellowed me a bit, and maybe my hitch in the dungeons of Amber reminded me somewhat of the quality of human suffering. I do not know. I only know that I could not pass by the hurt I saw on the form of someone much like someone who had once been a friend. | compassion heroism human-suffering | Roger Zelazny | |
| 1dfbc80 | In a room the size of a ballroom the Pattern was laid. The floor was black and looked smooth as glass. And on the floor was the Pattern. It shimmered like the cold fire that it was, quivered, made the whole room seem somehow unsubstantial. It was an elaborate tracery of bright power, composed mainly of curves, though there were a few straight lines near its middle. It reminded me of a fantastically intricate, life-scale version of one of .. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 011ffa8 | Nothing is cheaper than past glories. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 3a2f9ba | there is Shadow and there is Substance, and this is the root of all things. Of Substance, there is only Amber, the real city, upon the real Earth, which contains everything. Of Shadow, there is an infinitude of things. Every possibility exists somewhere as a Shadow of the real. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 41c0f24 | Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in su.. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 5483f2b | It occurred to Keth for the first time that perhaps magic wasn't simply a matter of fires, lightning, and power in the air, if spoken words could also create such a transformation. | power-of-speech words | Tamora Pierce | |
| 34b9a2b | Scrying the wind is very difficult, Tris," Niko said gently. "It's like scrying the future. You're assailed with thousands of images -- fragments, really. It drives many who try it insane." "You learned to scry the future," Tris pointed out. "And a number of people have informed me they think I am mad," Niko replied, his voice very dry." | Tamora Pierce | ||
| a4d50ea | If thanks was what I wanted," Sandry replied in the same language, "I would be sad indeed. Since I don't want it, I won't miss it." | thanks | Tamora Pierce | |
| d147ab1 | We're men, and men aren't born to stand alone. | right-in-the-feels sire-myles | Tamora Pierce | |
| 542bfd8 | I was reading. | humor reading | -Tamora Pierce Briar s Book via fictionalheroine | |
| 2ec4a7f | Part of the appeal of hamburgers and nuggets is that their boneless abstractions allow us to forget we're eating animals. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 66ff693 | Cooking--of whatever kind, everyday or extreme--situates us in the world in a very special place, facing the natural world on one side and the social world on the other. The cook stands squarely between nature and culture, conducting a process of translation and negotiation. Both nature and culture are transformed by the work. And in the process, I discovered, so is the cook. | Michael Pollan | ||
| cf73410 | Polyface is proof that people can sometimes do more for the health of a place by cultivating it rather than by leaving it alone. | Michael Pollan | ||
| e49d52c | The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution. | Michael Pollan | ||
| cdd5771 | As grandmothers used to say, 'Better to pay the grocer than the doctor | health-care | Michael Pollan | |
| 31629cd | Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice. | food practice | Michael Pollan | |
| b6c2c37 | Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure become a process of converting fossil fuels into food. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 21cf34d | Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 5051bd7 | This was before the importance of set and setting was understood. I was brought to a basement room, given an injection, and left alone." A recipe for a bad trip, surely, but Richards had precisely the opposite experience. "I felt immersed in this incredibly detailed imagery that looked like Islamic architecture, with Arabic script, about which I knew nothing. And then I somehow became these exquisitely intricate patterns, losing my usual id.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| b7b0d13 | On this question, he holds with Henri Bergson, the French philosopher, who conceived of the human mind as a kind of radio receiver, able to tune in to frequencies of energy and information that exist outside it. "If you wanted to find the blonde who delivered the news last night," Richards offered by way of an analogy, "you wouldn't look for her in the TV set." The television set is, like the human brain, necessary but not sufficient." | Michael Pollan |