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Steven Erikson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 7
Anthropologist
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Novelist
Writer
City of Toronto
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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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Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.
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Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.
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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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More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the armour of adulthood. Armour encumbers, restricts the body and soul within it. But it also protects. Blows are blunted. Feelings lose their edge, leaving us to suffer naught but a plague of bruises, and, after a time, bruises fade.
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There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.
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Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue-don’t you realize that?
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Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.
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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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Shake your fist all you want but dead is dead
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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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The tiger is humbled by memories of prey.
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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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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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I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core.
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The heart of wisdom is tolerance.
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With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still don’t. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliché archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote.
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If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in? That village, that city, that life? We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?
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The only death I fear is dying ignorant.
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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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