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We are the total of our longings.

Guy Gavriel Kay

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Guy Gavriel Kay
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 7
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There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had? But if you didn't change at least a little, where were the passages of a life? Didn't learning, changing, sometimes mean letting go of what had once been seen as true?
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... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.
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She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.
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After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.
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When I'm all grown up, come what may, I'll build a boat to carry me away
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By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.
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It is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.
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Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.
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A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not been made in that way. Perhaps, however, within the self there might come a resonance, the awareness of having done something difficult, of having done . . . something.
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The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.
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Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.
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Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.
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It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
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One man sees a riselka: his life forks there. Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die. Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die.
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In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.
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Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring.
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How we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.
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There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.
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Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of the river and become afraid. Writers do that sort of thing. They like dragons in their tales.
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Ice is for death and endings.
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