Steven Erikson Short Quotes

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'What worth peace when it was maintained by threat?

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You're loitering, citizen. Actually, I was hesitating.

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An army that waits is soon an army at war with itself.

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The dead never interrupt, said the mason, they but arrive.

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'Necessity, now there's a word to feed every outrage on decency.'

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We are sickened by the unknown, but knowledge can prove poisonous.

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Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.

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Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

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What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They're allowed to think.

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Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.

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'I think I understand. Before there can be disdain, there must be pride.

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The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

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No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.

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He had nowhere to look for answers, and he was tired of asking questions.

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Since when is speaking the truth presumptuous?
You are young, aren't you?

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Sometimes, mortals did indeed forget. Sometimes, mortals needed... reminding.

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Ah, Fist, it's the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.

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

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To grieve is the gift of the living — a gift so many of our kin have long lost

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He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly

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If one could always choose the right question, then every answer could be as obvious.

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Art is the language of the tormented, but the world is blind to that, for ever blind.

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Nor would he recognize hope if it came to him. Too much a stranger, too long a ghost.

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Play on, mortal. Every god falls at a mortal's hands. Such is the only end to immortality.

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Paran shook his head, his only surprise the realization that nothing surprised him anymore.

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Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.

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He who would dominate must learn early that those resisting his command should be destroyed.

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If dreams of flying are the last hope of freedom, I will pray for wings with my last breath.

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As with most unwitting servants of the gods, once the game was done so was the servant's life.

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When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

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