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It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh
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There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.
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Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you, a single thread at a time, and you weave your own shroud, you build a cocoon, and in it madness grows.
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I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.
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You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all.
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I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way. Great. Climbing them is a different matter altogether though. I hate that.
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A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.
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And when pain bites, men bargain. Boys too. We twist and turn, we plead and beg, we offer our tormentors what he wants so that the hurting will stop. And when there is no torturer to placate, no hooded man with hot irons and tongs, just a burn you can't escape, we bargain with God, or ourselves, depending on the size of our egos.
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Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.
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A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.
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I'll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It's the silence that scares me. It's the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.
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For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark vaults of imagination. Lying on bloody sheets in the Healing Hall I discovered doors within my mind that I'd not found before, doors that even a child of nine knows should not be opened. Doors that never close again. I threw them wide.
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I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more.
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I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour.
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If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.
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Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.
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Something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was.
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Lundist held that a man who can observe is a man apart. Such a man can see opportunities where others see only the obstacles
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There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.
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In the end it seems we're just toys, easy to break and hard to mend
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I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you're strangers. Maybe that's what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up.
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It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.
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You soon learn there's no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes.
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I may be running out of options, but running out isn't an option.
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We die a little every day and by degrees we're reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.
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It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.
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You got responsibilities when you're a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or who're you going to lead?
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There's something brittle in me that will break before it bends.
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Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.
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Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.
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Mark Lawrence
Born:
January 28, 1966
(age 58)
Bio:
Mark Lawrence is a novelist of dual nationality, best known for his The Broken Empire trilogy of books. In 2014, Lawrence won the David Gemmell Legend Awards for best novel for Emperor of Thorns.
Known for:
Prince of Thorns (2011)
King of Thorns (2012)
Prince of Fools (2014)
Emperor of Thorns (2013)
The Wheel of Osheim (2016)
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