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• And in the city on all sides, the howling of the Hounds rose in an ear-shattering, soul-flailing crescendo. The Lord of Death had arrived, to walk the streets in the City of Blue Fire.

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  Fire, Blue, Cities

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• Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection.

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  Believe, Writing, Fiction

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• Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thougt for a moment longer, then scowled. On second thoughts, what a nightmare that'd be. It's the job of a man to fan the spark into flames, not quench it.

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  Jobs, Men, Flames

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• What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?

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  Men, What Matters, Necks

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• A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that.

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  Civilization, Poison, World

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• Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing of pain. In the face of that, murder itself was surcease: it was quick, and it ended the anguish and despair of a life without hope.

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  Pain, Betrayal, Despair

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)”, p.426, Random House

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• Curious,” Bauchelain said. “What is it you wish us to do for you?” “Usurp the king,” Imid Factalo said. “Usurp, as in depose.” “Right.” “Depose, as in remove.” “Yes.” “Remove, as in kill.

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  Kings, Wish, Curious

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• The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.

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  Ideas, Ongoing, Littles

  "Why Did You Bother Telling Me That?". Interview with Peter Orullian, www.tor.com. August 13, 2012.

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• Ah, Meese has brought us her finest goblets! A moment, whilst Kruppe sweeps out cobwebs, insect husks and other assorted proofs of said goblets' treasured value.

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  Cobwebs, Moments, Finest

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• I'll not deny I am impressed by your mastery of six warrens, Quick Ben. In retrospect, you should have held back on at least half of what you command." The man made to rise. "But, Bauchelain," the wizard replied, "I did.

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  Men, Should Have, Mastery

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• It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.

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  Soldier, Example, Half

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• Oh yes, I have learned much from Tremorlor, and so assume a like strategy. Silence, a faint mocking smile suggesting I know more than I do, an air of mystery, yes, and fell knowledge. None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions!

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  Air, Confusion, Silence

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• So you say, with your shiny hair and pouty lips - and those breasts - just wait till you start dropping whelps, they'll be at your ankles one day, big as they are - not the whelps, the breasts. The whelps will be in your hair - no, not the shiny hair on your head, well, yes, that hair, but only as a manner of speech.

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  Hair, Waiting, One Day

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• The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.

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  Stars, Different, World

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• I hear Seven Cities natives grow fruit just so they can eat the larvae in them.

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  Cities, Fruit, Seven

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• A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day I’ll just be one more of those faces, frozen in death and wonder

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  One Day, Faces, Frozen

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• Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of human condition. No, they proclaimed morality was an imperative of all life, a natural law that was neither the brutal acts of beasts nor the lofty ambitions of humanity, but something other, something unassailable

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  Ambition, Law, Humanity

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• First in , Last out. Motto of the bridgeburners

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  Lasts, Firsts, Motto

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