If you were fierce and determined enough, you could obtain the things you most desired. When those gifts arrived, though, it was often with complications and bedevilments you never once considered.
“There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.”
― Look to Windward
― Look to Windward
“Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try to polish every sentence there's a chance you'll never get past the first chapter.”
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“It was the day my grandmother exploded.”
― The Crow Road
― The Crow Road
“An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.”
― Excession
― Excession
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