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"“Oh shit!” was my exclamation. My wife, in the other room, was very concerned. When I explained myself she was relieved that it wasn’t an emergency, but quickly grew bored with my recitation.
A character just stepped forth and I was completely shocked when I recognized him! he has not been named yet. I am grinning ear to ear. I haven’t felt like this in a long time.
Good on you, Mr. Feist!" — May 31, 2026 08:31PM
"“Oh shit!” was my exclamation. My wife, in the other room, was very concerned. When I explained myself she was relieved that it wasn’t an emergency, but quickly grew bored with my recitation.
A character just stepped forth and I was completely shocked when I recognized him! he has not been named yet. I am grinning ear to ear. I haven’t felt like this in a long time.
Good on you, Mr. Feist!" — May 31, 2026 08:31PM
“Look at me! I am death that walks with every man, but I cannot feel it myself. I am the beginning and the end of my own existence. Look at my body! Do you think you can do more to me than has already been done? I have tasted the flames of
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“I take back all the times I took back all the bad things I said about Kluge,” I said. “He really is a moron.” “Actually, you’ve never taken back anything you said about him,” Jessep informed me. “Well that just goes to show how good a judge of character I am.”
― The Last God
― The Last God
“By the pink left nipple of sweet Vashtilulu the Buxom! I feel you have Koztivkure slung on your back! Strike down the foul wizard, and have done!"
"Aye," squeaked Tosho, "for what he had you do to me, do as Krak says, and strike his blasphemous head from his loathsome shoulders!”
― Kandar
"Aye," squeaked Tosho, "for what he had you do to me, do as Krak says, and strike his blasphemous head from his loathsome shoulders!”
― Kandar
“The thing is to be always ready to change, to adapt, to fit one's self to the facts of life. a fool fights reality and seeks the impossible; a wise man is always alert to move towards the possible.”
― The Lion of Islam
― The Lion of Islam
“The only difference between genius and insanity is that genius has its limits.”
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― NPC
“This man of god has great faith, he thought, and men have always praised that. I have no faith and that is accounted evil; but the world if it is ever saved will be saved by men of goodwill of much thought and of little faith...Faith stops thinking, and thought is the root of life without which we become beasts, faith is surrender and dependence and becoming children again, it is refusing the accept the unimaginable variety of truth and the unwillingness to permit another his variant. Faith stops progress and legitimizes murder...”
― The Saracen Blade
― The Saracen Blade
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