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“I could not get my feelings straight. I did not believe in evil as an active force, only as a matter of viewpoint, yet I had seen enough to make me question my philosophy. If the Lady were not evil incarnate, then she was as close as made no difference.”

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Glen Cook The Black Company

Origine: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 6, “Lady” (p. 205)

“That was not an exaggeration, that was an outright fabrication.”

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Glen Cook libro She Is the Darkness

Origine: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 9 (p. 304)

“Public works which did not serve the rich and powerful had a way of dying of neglect.”

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Glen Cook libro The Silver Spike

Origine: The Silver Spike (1989), Chapter 66 (p. 646)

“Raven muttered, “You don’t have to be brilliant to be a god.””

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Glen Cook libro The Silver Spike

Origine: The Silver Spike (1989), Chapter 42 (p. 580)

“I am not religious. I cannot conceive of gods who would give a damn about humanity’s frothy carryings-on. I mean, logically, beings of that order just wouldn’t. But maybe there is a force for greater good, created by our unconscious minds conjoined, that becomes an independent power greater than the sum of its parts. Maybe, being a mindthing, it is not time-bound. Maybe it can see everywhere and everywhen and move pawns so that what seems to be today’s victory becomes the cornerstone of tomorrow’s defeat.
Maybe weariness did things to my mind.”

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Glen Cook The Black Company

Origine: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 6, “Lady” (p. 208)

“You can blame a wizard for anything and people will believe you.”

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Glen Cook libro Bleak Seasons

Origine: Bleak Seasons (1996), Chapter 77 (p. 212)

“Baladitya understands that in addition to being foreign territory the past is, as history, a hall of mirrors that reflect the needs of souls observing from the present. Absolute fact serves the hungers of only a few disconnected people. Symbol and faith serve the rest.”

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Glen Cook libro Soldiers Live

Origine: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 12, “Glittering Stone: Steadfast Guardian” (p. 401)

“I won’t bore you with their dogma. It’s repulsive and I’m not sure it was related to me truthfully.”

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Glen Cook Dreams of Steel

Origine: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter 23 (p. 310)

“I guess you don’t need to agree on everything to be lovers.”

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Glen Cook libro Bleak Seasons

Origine: Bleak Seasons (1996), Chapter 31 (p. 87)

“One’s own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid. Death is the only exorcism.”

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Glen Cook libro The White Rose

Origine: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 8, “The Barrowland” (p. 481)

““They worship the goddess, Mistress. They think. But their heresies are revolting. They are worse than disbelief.”
Why was he incensed? A prolonged exchange failed to illuminate me. No godless person can comprehend those minute distinctions in doctrine that provide true believers excuse for mayhem. It is hard enough to accept the fact that they really believe the nonsense of their faiths. I always wonder if they are pulling my leg with a straight face.”

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Glen Cook Dreams of Steel

Origine: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter 58 (pp. 414-415)

“You try your damnedest, but something always goes wrong. That’s life. If you’re smart, you plan for it.”

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Glen Cook libro Shadows Linger

Origine: Shadows Linger (1984), Chapter 6, “Tally Mix-Up” (p. 232)

“You can’t get out of getting old. You can’t get out of having a relationship change.”

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Glen Cook libro The White Rose

Origine: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 10, “Bomanz’s Story” (p. 497)

“I tend toward the cynical view where religion is concerned.”

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Glen Cook libro Soldiers Live

Origine: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 52, “The Nether Taglian Territories: Lady Made Grumpy Noises” (p. 541)

“Shed swallowed. “That isn’t a plan that does much for my nerves.”
“Your nerves aren’t my problem, Shed. They’re yours. You lost them. Only you can find them again.””

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Glen Cook libro Shadows Linger

Origine: Shadows Linger (1984), Chapter 15, “Juniper: Death of a Gangster” (p. 287)

“He had leaped into the embrace of self-delusion.
There was a lot of that going around.”

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Glen Cook libro Soldiers Live

Origine: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 76, “The Taglian Territories: Another Origin Story” (p. 609)

“No world lacks its villains so self-confident that they don’t believe they can get the best end of a bargain with the darkness.”

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Glen Cook libro Soldiers Live

Origine: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 5, “An Abode of Ravens: Headquarters” (p. 382)

“There are several huge monasteries—of which Khang Phi is the greatest—dedicated to the preservation of knowledge. The monks do not sort it into good and evil knowledge, nor do they make moral judgments. They take the position that no knowledge is evil until someone chooses to do evil with it.”

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Glen Cook libro Soldiers Live

Origine: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 10, “An Abode of Ravens: Recovery” (p. 397)

“I began to back away.
This is how I handle my women. Duck for cover when they get distressed.”

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Glen Cook libro Shadow Games

Origine: Shadow Games (1989), Chapter 5, “Chains of Empire” (p. 31)

“An adventure is somebody else slogging through the mud and snow while suffering from trench foot, ringworm, dysentery and starvation, being chased by people with their hearts set on murder or more. I have been there. I have done that, playing both parts. I do not recommend it. Be content with a nice farm or shop. Make lots of babies and bring them up to be good people.”

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Glen Cook libro Soldiers Live

Origine: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 6, “An Abode of Ravens: Suvrin’s News” (p. 384)

“I picked up my five cards from the next deal. “This ain’t a hand, it’s a foot.””

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Glen Cook libro Water Sleeps

Origine: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 10 (p. 48)

“But how do you get rid of a god? Is there any religion where they teach you that? How to get your god off your back if he gets too damned obnoxious? No. All you ever get is advice on how to bribe them to leave you alone for a few minutes.”

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Glen Cook libro She Is the Darkness

Origine: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 39 (p. 403)

“Asking a storyteller not to embellish is like asking a fish to give up water.”

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Glen Cook libro Water Sleeps

Origine: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 32 (p. 118)

“Against the years all men campaign in vain.”

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Glen Cook libro Soldiers Live

Origine: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 80, “The Taglian Territories: In Camp” (p. 621)

“Trouble came only where I expected it, from One-Eye, whose motto is that anything not nailed down is his and anything he can pry loose isn’t nailed down.”

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Glen Cook libro Shadow Games

Origine: Shadow Games (1989), Chapter 38, “Invaders of the Shadowlands” (p. 194)

“Like most warlords he doesn’t let reality get in the way of his doing whatever he wants to do.”

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Glen Cook libro Bleak Seasons

Origine: Bleak Seasons (1996), Chapter 5 (p. 19)

“The road can blunt the most iron will.”

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Glen Cook libro The Silver Spike

Origine: The Silver Spike (1989), Chapter 20 (p. 503)

“Old folks called the winter a harbinger of worse to come. But old folks always see today’s weather as more harsh than that of yore. Or milder. Never, never the same.”

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Glen Cook libro The White Rose

Origine: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 8, “The Barrowland” (p. 482)

“I did not reflect on what my response, as Captain, would have been toward an underling with my present attitude. The Words Immortal are: That Was Different.”

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Glen Cook libro Soldiers Live

Origine: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 141, “Taglios: Family Matters” (p. 766)

“Time is the enemy whose patience can’t be exhausted.”

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Glen Cook Dreams of Steel

Origine: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter 12 (p. 270)

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