“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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“Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.”
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“The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.”
― Tales from Earthsea
― Tales from Earthsea
“With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still don’t. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliché archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote.”
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