Top 40 Daniel Polansky Quotes
#1. The two old friends stood silently in the fading light, though you wouldn't have known it to look at them. That they were old friends, I mean. Anyone could see it was getting dark.
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#2. I wonder if you're fast as they say," Bessie Weasel chirruped, her hand slowly straying toward the belt.
"Wondering is free," Cinnabar said finally, his voice soft and low. "Certainty has its price".
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#3. On the walls were a series of paintings depicting the Duke in various elaborate situations. The Duke on a battlefield, the Duke at hunt, the Duke overlooking his lands, the Duke on the shitter. I made up that last one.
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#4. The sort of creature whose wildest fantasies were filled with ledgers that balanced perfectly, and rows of clocks chiming in eternal unison.
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#5. Every man and woman is distinct from every other. But every mob is the same mob, whether composed of mineworkers or monarchs.
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#6. Mexico doesn't have an emperor." "That is Mexico's misfortune, for all of the greatest countries have emperors.
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#7. An inability to understand the weakness in his fellow men that left him barely more than competent in the internecine feuding at the heart of the Aelerian political machine. It
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#8. For a while a person is a junkie and a bartender or a junkie and a father or a junkie and a thief, but after a while he's just a junkie.
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#9. Thus far, the best that could be said for the day was that it was half over.
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#10. Had Eudokia been granted divinity she'd have found something better to do with it than watching two old farts in ugly robes mutter gibberish over summer wine.
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#11. Experience does not necessarily lead to understanding,' the
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#12. perhaps it is only that sometimes misery seems to ease when spread about, or that spreading it seems to provide some purpose to the misery.
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#13. If the human race has ever invented an institution more effective in the propagation of intellectual and ethical cripples than the nobility, I have yet to stumble across it.
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#14. As far as immortality went, that was obviously not any sort of good at all. Who had ever met death without some partial measure of joy?
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#15. There are some things a man can't fake, and lethality is one of them - a lapdog might learn to howl, even bare its teeth on occasion, but that don't make it a wolf.
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#16. It is not enough to be intelligent,' Eudokia said, setting up the pieces for a second game. 'One must also be vicious.
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#17. Duplicity was not the sole province of the capital, Bas knew, but the honest inheritance of the entire species.
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#18. Our language has yet to develop a proper send-off for leaving a close friend's deathbed.
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#19. I never give anyone the benefit of the doubt when it comes to stupidity. People do very, very stupid things, and smart people more than most.
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#20. The rows of empty jugs had multiplied with the speed of caged rabbits.
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#21. The lower you are on the pole, the more events seem to be governed by chance. Climb up a few steps and you realize that there's an order to the whole thing, the dice are loaded and the cards well marked.
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#23. He was as happy as a pup on Christmas morning, as a maid on her wedding night, as a wolf before his bloody red supper.
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#24. Be careful,' I hissed, then released him. 'Keep one eye on your back, and two on your best friend.'
'That's three eyes.'
'You'll need four to survive what's coming,' I said.
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#25. Were the best of friends. One of them was likely to kill the other before long.
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#26. The dangerous men were still asleep, their blades sheathed next to their beds. The really dangerous men had been up for hours, and their quills and ledgers were getting hard use.
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#27. It's a dangerous thing, pretense. A man ought to know who he is, even if he isn't proud to be it.
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#28. anger is the heart beating faster. fear is the stomach tightening and untightening. lust is blood swelling between your legs. flesh is ever-changing, flesh is self-aware.
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#29. But then again what we seem to be is not always what we are.
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#30. A lie was an admission of weakness, evidence that you needed to fear the target of your dishonesty.
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#31. It's an odd fact about lunatics and junkies, but every one I'd ever met is just dying to share their life wisdom.
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#32. It is a scientific fact that time is infinitely divisible, that each moment contains within it the fragments of a thousand others, and each of them can be splintered into a thousand more, and so on and so on.
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#33. Odd, but no matter how high you rise in the halls of power, it's impossible to escape the conviction that our collective fates are largely determined by the petty jealousies of overgrown adolescents.
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#34. To exist without awareness, that was what you aimed at. Memories worn to irrelevance, the future equally insubstantial.
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#35. You got no business coming in here and playing the asshole.'
'I am an asshole, Sully. We haven't even scraped the surface yet.
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#36. The body can decay right in front of you, go from a tool that expresses your will to an anchor dragging you down to hell.
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#37. ...and is there anything to compare to love? Is there anything at all, anything that has ever been built, grown or coalesced that can compare to love? Love as deep as the Mariana Trench and wild as a summer storm?
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#39. When bowing to the inevitable, it's best to do so low, and quickly.
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#40. I've heard people speak of themselves as addicted to reading, but I think those people never stole from their family so they could afford this month's serial, or sucked off a sailor for a new book of short stories.
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