Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

Glen Cook

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. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.

Glen Cook


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There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

Glen Cook


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I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.

Glen Cook

Tags: history past-and-present



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Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.

Glen Cook


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I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

Glen Cook


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Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

Glen Cook

Tags: wisdom life acceptance death



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If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance.

Glen Cook

Tags: fantasy-fiction



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I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

Glen Cook


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Consistency is the sign of a narrow mind.

Glen Cook


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