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“A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not been made in that way. Perhaps, however, within the self there might come a resonance, the awareness of having done something difficult, of having done . . . something.”
― The Last Light of the Sun
― The Last Light of the Sun
“Are there any leading men in your life?"
"Several, but they're all fictional.”
― The Madwoman Upstairs
"Several, but they're all fictional.”
― The Madwoman Upstairs
“Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.”
― Macbeth
― Macbeth
“I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.”
― The Game of Kings
― The Game of Kings
“For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he might have said, or might have done—a judgment that is necessarily hampered, not only by the scope and limits of his imagination, but by the ever-changing measure of his doubt and self-esteem.”
― The Luminaries
― The Luminaries
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