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We are the total of our longings.
Guy Gavriel Kay
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Guy Gavriel Kay
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: November 7
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She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.
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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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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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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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The heart has its own laws... and the truth is... the truth is that you are the law of mine.
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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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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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Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.
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I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.
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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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When I'm all grown up, come what may, I'll build a boat to carry me away
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There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.
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Ice is for death and endings.
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Irritation for some men was their response to strain.
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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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most hated by the dark, for their name is light.
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We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.
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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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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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