Glen Cook Quotes

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• Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.
• I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of…
• The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with…
• Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.
• Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.
• . . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.
• There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a…
• I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.
• Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules,…
• I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find…
• Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.
• If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom,…
• Consistency is the sign of a narrow mind.
• I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.
• Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on…
• Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.
• I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.
• More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.
• The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.
• Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.

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