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Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of…

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The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.
She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.
The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ...…
I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end…
I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I…
I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we…
In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards,…
All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not…
I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other…
From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close and personal,…
Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is…
We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing…

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To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water. — Sigurd F. Olson
May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one… — George Eliot
I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and… — Theodore White
The mists of nostalgia color memory. — Ken Tucker
A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the… — Elwyn Brooks White
The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond. — Henry David Thoreau
Our Lord's descent from the holy heights of the Mount of Transfiguration was more than a physical return from greater to lesser… — James E. Talmage
It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists… — Susanna Kearsley
As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility,… — Charles Baudelaire
As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having… — Jean Baudrillard
In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a… — Reinhold Messner

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