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Steven Erikson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 7
Anthropologist
Archaeologist
Novelist
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City of Toronto
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So you say, with your shiny hair and pouty lips - and those breasts - just wait till you start dropping whelps, they'll be at your ankles one day, big as they are - not the whelps, the breasts. The whelps will be in your hair - no, not the shiny hair on your head, well, yes, that hair, but only as a manner of speech.
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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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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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I was needed, but I myself did not need. I had followers, but not allies, and only now do I understand the difference. And it is vast.
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I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core.
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Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue-don’t you realize that?
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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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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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Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.
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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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What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?
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Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light.
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Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.
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The only death I fear is dying ignorant.
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None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom...' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.
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Shake your fist all you want but dead is dead
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Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have value, that the world and all the gods sit in judgment over every decision made or not made?
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Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.
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The harder the world, the fiercer the honour.
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Can you live without answers? All of you, ask that of yourself. Can you live without answers? Because if you cannot, then most assuredly you will invent your own answers and they will comfort you. And all those who do not share your view will by their very existence strike fear and hatred into your heart. What god blesses this?
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