One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find.. This.
Joe Abercrombie
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He is dead and I, the self serving coward that I am, still live. Life is not fair. There is no pattern. People die at random. Something everyone knows, but no one truly believes. They think that when it comes to them there will be a lesson, a meaning, a story worth telling. That death will come to them as a dread scholar, a fell knight, a terrible emperor. Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit.
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Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit.
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Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.
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Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.
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A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.
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Strange, isn't it,' mused Glokta as he watched him struggle for air. 'Big men, small men, thin men, fat men, clever men, stupid men, they all respond the same to a fist in the guts. One minute you think you're the most powerful man in the world. The next you can't even breathe by yourself.
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Armour.. Is part of a state of mind.. In which you admit the possibility.. Of being hit.
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An Army is an instrument of government. It must be used in such a way that it furthers the interests of government. Otherwise what use is it? Only an extremely costly machine for... Minting medals.
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If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?
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Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.
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The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.
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Those with the least always lose the most in war.
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So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.
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Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.
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