Tad Williams Quotes
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Perhaps it is fortunate that most heroes who die for their people cannot come back to see what the people do with that hard-bought life and freedom.
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We trolls say: 'Make Philosophy your evening guest, but do not let her stay the night.'
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I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.
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'As with all dwellings,' she said, 'of mortals and immortals both, it is the living that makes a house-not the doors, not the walls.'
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I shall endeavor to turn dross to purest Metal Absolute: in short, to teach you something.
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He wanted a home desperately. He was close to the point where he would take a mattress in Hell if the Devil would lend him a pillow.
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Light, with its handmaiden color, was everywhere.
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I am a sandwich man. Somewhere early in life, my epigenetic switches got flicked to 'likes sandwiches,' and that's where they still are. I suspect it's at least in part because they're easy to eat while reading.
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Damn everyone to Hell. And damn the bloody forest. And God, too, for that matter.He looked up fearfully from his chill handful of water, but his silent blasphemy went unpunished.
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She didn’t know which she liked less, having people tell lies about her or having people know the truth.
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Binabik had taught him to do only what he could at any given time. 'You cannot catch three fish with two hands,' the little man often said.
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She knew that life was but a long struggle against disorder, and that disorder was the inevitable winner.
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When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren’t many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity-a waste of precious time and effort.
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'This fellow,' he indicated the woodsman with a sweep of his stick, 'will reliably not become more alive, but he may have friends or family who will be unsettled to find him so extremely dead.'
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There are no promises in life, Sludig, but it seems to me smarter to take fewer chances.
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Are these things you all say magical charms to chase me away? If so, they do not seem to be working.
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The fear was all he had left, but even that was something-he was afraid, so he must be alive! There was darkness, but there was Simon, too! There were not one and the same. Not yet. Not quite...
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Simple answers to life’s questioning. That would be a magic beyond any I have ever been seeing.
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Has everyone gone mad?” “Everyone was mad already, my lady,” Cadrach said with a strange, sorrowful smile. “It is merely that the times have brought it out in them.
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'I have not slept well since I first entered my brother’s dungeons. While my comfort has improved since then, worry has taken the place of hanging in chains as a denier of rest.''There are many kinds of imprisonment,' Jarnauga nodded.
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Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.
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Fear goes where it is invited.
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Part of manhood, I am thinking, is to ponder one’s words before opening one’s mouth.
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If the strong can bully the weak without shame, then how are we different from the beasts of forest and field?