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Mark Lawrence
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 28
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Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.
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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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Questions for questions. You're a man who's spent time at court.
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Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.
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It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh
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When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.
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Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.
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Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you, a single thread at a time, and you weave your own shroud, you build a cocoon, and in it madness grows.
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In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend
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There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.
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I may be running out of options, but running out isn't an option.
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A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.
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For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark vaults of imagination. Lying on bloody sheets in the Healing Hall I discovered doors within my mind that I'd not found before, doors that even a child of nine knows should not be opened. Doors that never close again. I threw them wide.
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Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me.
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You got responsibilities when you’re a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or who’re you going to lead?
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There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends.
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Sometime, It's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.
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If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.
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If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice.
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