"I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its face and see its wonders, but when I go down, there will be no child to carry my name, no family to mourn me save my comrades, no one to remember, no one to raise a marker over my cold bit of ground."

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Source : Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.243, Macmillan

Glen Cook

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“Why do we bombard God with our prayers for what we lack to be provided? Perhaps we should be asking God not to supply our wants, but to dwell within them.”

Source : Margaret Silf (2010). “Compass Points”, p.140, Loyola Press
“Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.”
“As a child, I had a deck of Marvel top trumps. You can get top trumps with racing cars, or fighter planes, or football players... I had all of the Marvel superheroes and super-villains you could get, and I used to play them with my friends. They were all listed according to their height and weight and agility and their super-powers.”
“I dont know if I feel a responsibility to encourage women, I just do! Yes, I think all of us chicks should be inspired and create! In whatever way that inspiration comes, we should shine! Honestly, I feel the same way about men.”
“It is very difficult to be a non-religious Jew outside Israel. The synagogue keeps Jews together in the Diaspora. In Israel, you are a Jew from morning to night. We don't even have to think about it, just as a Dutch citizen doesn't spend his whole day thinking about the fact that he is a Dutch citizen. It's a given.”
“The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.”
“The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.”
“I don't care about my image.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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