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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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Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction.
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Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.
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Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it
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Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man's memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.
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Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.
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Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.
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There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.
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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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