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The lesson of history is that no one learns.

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Steven Erikson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 7
Anthropologist
Archaeologist
Novelist
Writer
City of Toronto
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The art of illusion is grace itself.
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Curious,” Bauchelain said. “What is it you wish us to do for you?” “Usurp the king,” Imid Factalo said. “Usurp, as in depose.” “Right.” “Depose, as in remove.” “Yes.” “Remove, as in kill.
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Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.
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The tiger is humbled by memories of prey.
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It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.
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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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The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.
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War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have realized something else. War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one. With its rules, we willingly yield our humanity. Speak not of just causes, worthy goals. We are takers of life.
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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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No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.
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You’re loitering, citizen.” “Actually, I was hesitating.
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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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You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others
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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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He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony. Imagine a world without such souls. Yes, it should have been harder to do.
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First in , Last out. Motto of the bridgeburners
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For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.
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Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.
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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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