"With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasyâ€”something a lot of people didnâ€™t notice and maybe still donâ€™t. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the clichÃ© archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote."

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Steven Erikson

#Kings Quotes #War Quotes #Reading Quotes

“The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.”
“I don't mind being slightly fat-ish, I just don't want to be fat.”
“For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.”
“It wasn't easy for me to start in Bollywood because I was an outsider.”
“... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.”

Source : Mary Heaton Vorse, Dee Garrison (1985). “Rebel pen: the writings of Mary Heaton Vorse”, Monthly Review Pr
“A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.”
“in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened. If I am cold, they too are cold; if I am weary, they are distressed; if I am alone, they are abandoned.”
“We aren't lazy, overweight models. We work out and must maintain proportionate bodies for work. Plus models are curvy and fit. Don't let the scale fool you. Plus doesn't always equal unhealthy, just like skinny doesn't always equal healthy.”

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