Mark Lawrence (author) - Men Quotes

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It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

Mark Lawrence

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.

Mark Lawrence

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?

Mark Lawrence

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.

Mark Lawrence

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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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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