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There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.
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I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.
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Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.
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Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.
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I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing we are just plain nice folks.
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The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much evil man con conjure by existing.
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Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.
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Born:
July 9, 1944
(age 79)
Bio:
Glen Charles Cook is a contemporary American science fiction and fantasy writer, best known for The Black Company and Garrett P.I. fantasy series.
Known for:
The Black Company (1984)
Garrett P.I. (2013)
Shadows Linger (1984)
The White Rose (1985)
Shadow Games (1989)
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