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A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.
Mark Lawrence
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Mark Lawrence
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 28
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the United States of America
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If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice.
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It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh
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When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.
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something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was.
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A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.
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I may be running out of options, but running out isn't an option.
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I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.
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In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend
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We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.
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Do you know why the leaves change colour?... Before a tree sheds a leaf it pumps it full of all the poison it can't rid itself of otherwise. That red there--that's a man's skin blotching with burst veins after an assassin spikes his last meal with roto-weed. The poison spreading through him before he dies.
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Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life--keep moving.
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You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all.
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It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.
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