Tad Williams - Man Quotes

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Binabik had taught him to do only what he could at any given time. You cannot catch three fish with two hands, the little man often said.

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Never make your home in a place, the old man had said, too lazy in the spring warmth to do more than wag a finger. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it—memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. Morgenes had grinned. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. You'll never lack for a home—unless you lose your head, of course...

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Sharp it away, lad, sharp it away, the burly guardsman said, making the blade skitter across the whetstone, lest otherways ye'll be a girl afore ye're a man.

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The wise man is not waiting for the realness of the world to prove itself to him. How can one be an authority before the experiencing of this realness? My master taught me—and to me it seems chash, meaning correct—that you must not defend against the entering of knowledge.

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He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

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It would please me your not being obsequious. That is a trait of marketplace people who are selling shoddy goods. I am sure to prefer endless, stupid questions to that.
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Obsequious. Flattering with oiliness. It is not liked by me. In Yiqanuc we say: 'Send the man with the oily tongue to go and lick the snowshoes.'

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The man who lives beside the water hole does not dream of thirst.

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