"If one chooses sides on emotion then the……" — Glen Cook
"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, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance."
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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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I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one…
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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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Consistency is the sign of a narrow mind.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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