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    Bernard Cornwell
    “He loved you," I protested.
    She stared at me and I thought she was about to erupt into a blistering anger, but instead she smiled wanly. "He worshipped me, Derfel," she said tiredly, "and that is not the same thing as being loved.”
    ― Bernard Cornwell, Excalibur
    tags: love
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “A man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged
    tags: capital-punishment
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    Glen Cook
    “The only exercise I get is jumping to conclusions.”
    ― Glen Cook, The White Rose
    tags: humour
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The Road goes ever on and on
    Down from the door where it began.
    Now far ahead the Road has gone,
    And I must follow, if I can,
    Pursuing it with eager feet,
    Until it joins some larger way
    Where many paths and errands meet.
    And whither then? I cannot say”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: road
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: faith
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: food, happiness
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Harlan Ellison
    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
    tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity
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    Harlan Ellison
    “I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.
    Adult. You have become adult.”
    ― Harlan Ellison, Paingod and Other Delusions
    tags: inspirational, pain, philosophy
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    Harlan Ellison
    “The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
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    Harlan Ellison
    “HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.”
    ― Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
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    Glen Cook
    “Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.”
    ― Glen Cook, Shadow Games
    tags: cynicism, humor, life
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    Glen Cook
    “More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.”
    ― Glen Cook, Dreams of Steel
    tags: evil, right-and-wrong, righteousness
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    Glen Cook
    “Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.”
    ― Glen Cook, Shadows Linger
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    Bernard Cornwell
    “Words are like breath," she said, "you say them and they're gone. But writing traps them.”
    ― Bernard Cornwell, The Pale Horseman
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    David Gaider
    “Really? It's no wonder you nearly froze to death the way you spend all your energy moving your mouth.
    Loghain Mac Tir”
    ― David Gaider, The Stolen Throne
    tags: humor
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    Mark Lawrence
    “Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
    tags: memories, past
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    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.”
    ― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish
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    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
    ― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish
    tags: good-evil-choice
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    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don't have to kill your feelings. It's enough to kill hatred within yourself.”
    ― Andrzej Sapkowski, Krew elfów
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    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “Evil is Evil. Lesser, greater, middling… Makes no difference. The degree is arbitary. The definition’s blurred. If I’m to choose between one evil and another… I’d rather not choose at all.”
    ― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish
    tags: badass
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    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “People”—Geralt turned his head—“like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves.”
    ― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish
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    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “There's a grain of truth in every fairy tale,”
    ― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish
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    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “I know you’re almost forty, look almost thirty, think you’re just over twenty and act as though you’re barely ten.”
    ― Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves
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