Steven Erikson Quotes

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• Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.
• Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.
• Name none of the fallen, for they stand in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold…
• A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too…
• All they get around here is stories. Stories don't make you bleed. Stories don't make you go hungry, don't give you sore feet. When you're…
• You always fashioned yourself as the Empire’s harshest Fist, didn’t you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty’s a virtue…
• I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the…
• The art of illusion is grace itself.
• Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.
• No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.
• Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived…
• Children were meant to be gifts. The physical manifestation of love between a man and a woman. And for that love all manner of sacrifice…
• Not even the lichen of the tundra is at peace. All is struggle, all is war for dominance. Those who lose, vanish. -And we’re no…
• 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,…
• Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue-don’t you realize that?
• Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of human condition. No, they proclaimed morality was an imperative of all…
• Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing of pain. In…
• The only death I fear is dying ignorant.
• A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day I’ll just be one more of those faces, frozen in…
• You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

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