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I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core.

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Steven Erikson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 7
Anthropologist
Archaeologist
Novelist
Writer
City of Toronto
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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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Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue-don’t you realize that?
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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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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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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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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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The art of illusion is grace itself.
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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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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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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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Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.
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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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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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You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others
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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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Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.
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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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What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?
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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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