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Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.

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Steven Erikson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 7
Anthropologist
Archaeologist
Novelist
Writer
City of Toronto
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Outwit
Vastness
Genius
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Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering. Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them. Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.
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A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day I’ll just be one more of those faces, frozen in death and wonder
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Tell me, Tool, what dominates your thoughts? The Imass shrugged before replying. I think of futility, Adjunct. Do all Imass think about futility? No. Few think at all. Why is that? The Imass leaned his head to one side and regarded her. Because, Adjunct, it is futile.
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You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others
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Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.
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I'll not deny I am impressed by your mastery of six warrens, Quick Ben. In retrospect, you should have held back on at least half of what you command. The man made to rise. But, Bauchelain, the wizard replied, I did.
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We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again. ~Fiddler, pg. 558
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One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.
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Ah, Meese has brought us her finest goblets! A moment, whilst Kruppe sweeps out cobwebs, insect husks and other assorted proofs of said goblets' treasured value.
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Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly. I want to be a soldier. A hero. You'll grow out of it.
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Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.
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The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.
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Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.
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A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.
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The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then we die.
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And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.
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And in the city on all sides, the howling of the Hounds rose in an ear-shattering, soul-flailing crescendo. The Lord of Death had arrived, to walk the streets in the City of Blue Fire.
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I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.
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Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue-don’t you realize that?
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