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Irritation for some men was their response to strain.
Guy Gavriel Kay
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Guy Gavriel Kay
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 7
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More quotes by Guy Gavriel Kay
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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You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.
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By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.
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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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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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Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.
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We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.
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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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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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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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... 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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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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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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We are the total of our longings.
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