"Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat."

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Source : Steven Erikson (2009). “Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)”, p.17, Random House

Steven Erikson

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“My father was an all-American football player.”

Source : Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. July 1, 2002.
“Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.”
“The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.”
“My life may be encapsulated by one of Graham Greene's "entertainments" titles: 'Loser Takes All'. Since I was thrown out of highschool for political reasons, I was free to study on my own and develop my own ways of thinking.”
“What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death.”
“Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.”

Source : Henry Parry Liddon (1872). “The Life of Faith and the Athanasian Creed: a Sermon [on John Iii. 36], Etc”, p.10
“In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.”
“Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in Godâ€™s grace in the midst of hardship. Hope is found in his promise to give us a future.”

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