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“You didn’t shout at me. You were so quiet I thought you had left.’ ‘I almost did. I detest shouting. I hate being shouted at, and I never shout at anyone. That doesn’t mean I never get angry though.’ After a moment’s pause, she added, ‘Or that I never get hurt. “Only my pain is more silent than my anger.”
― The Complete Liveship Traders Trilogy: Ship of Magic, The Mad Ship, Ship of Destiny
― The Complete Liveship Traders Trilogy: Ship of Magic, The Mad Ship, Ship of Destiny
“It’s all a trick,’ he observed. ‘All a rotten trick men play on themselves. They get together and they create this beautiful thing and then they stand back and say, “See, we have souls and insight and holiness and joy. We put it all in this building so we don’t have to bother with it in our everyday lives. We can live as stupidly and brutally as we wish, and stamp down any inclination to spirituality or mysticism that we see in our neighbours or ourselves. Having set it in stone, we don’t have to bother with it any more.” It’s a trick men play on themselves. Just one more way we cheat ourselves.”
― The Complete Liveship Traders Trilogy: Ship of Magic, The Mad Ship, Ship of Destiny
― The Complete Liveship Traders Trilogy: Ship of Magic, The Mad Ship, Ship of Destiny
Arne’s 2025 Year in Books
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280 books
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41 friends
128 books
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71 books
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14 friends
23 books
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399 books
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36 friends
1 book
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7 books
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13 friends
2 books
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17 friends
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