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...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.

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Tad Williams
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 14
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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San Jose
California
Coca
Fries
Commerce
Western
Wine
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When it falls on your head, then you are knowing it is a rock.
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The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.
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He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.
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Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor.
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You have to go down before you can come out — that’s how these things always work.
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I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.
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