"I guess each of us, at some time,……" — Glen Cook
"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 us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing we are just plain nice folks."
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25 Quotes by Glen Cook
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Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.
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The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess.…
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Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.
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Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.
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. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.
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There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and…
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I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.
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Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players…
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I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive.…
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Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers…
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If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything…
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Consistency is the sign of a narrow mind.
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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