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“He was, in other words, a careful man with careless impulses.”

— Dan Simmons

“he sometimes wondered why leadership and stupidity seemed to be such frequent companions. And why people leaped to follow those who were plainly wrong.…

— Howard of Warwick

“There was something about him so pure and untarnished,yet he was powerful and well-versed on life.”

— Cecelia Ahern

“What ran through the mind of a man who was clearly good yet had to do something terrible?”

— Stephanie Constante

“He felt people were never intentionally beastly or malicious, but they were pompous and foolish; awful decisions were made by men divorced from their…

— Glen David Gold

“Events in his own past he never thought of as evil but rather as mistaken, immensely regrettable, brought about by fear and greed.”

— Barbara Vine

“He was poor and foolish and people will always have a place in their hearts for the harmless.”

— Tim Winton

“He had great ideas for change but was too busy with other things to pursue them. He postulated. He pontificated. He spoke glowingly of…

— Abiodun Fijabi

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without…

— Victor Hugo

“What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all…

— Dave Eggers

“He often makes prizes of humans who have given their lives for causes He thinks bad on the monstrously sophistical ground that the humans…

— C.S. Lewis

“Everything now had been taken from him, his striving after goodness, his hopes, his pride, even that human revenge upon fate--to destroy his own…

— Tanith Lee