Ian C. Esslemont Quotes

#1. It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one's suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.

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#2. Women are terrifying to men,' he whispered, 'because they can break them with the simplest word or briefest glance.'

Now she smiled. 'Not if they care for them.

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#3. Freedom - rather more complicated in the concrete than the abstract, yes?

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#4. I believe true evil lies in actions. In deliberate harmful acts.' 'Spoken

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#5. [...]They offended Hood,' he stated flatly.
'And How they did that?' Silk enquired.
'They demanded a tithe upon the temple. I demonstrated Hood's tithe.'
'And who are you to judge?' Smokey demanded. The lad's Dark, almost blue-black eyes edged aside to Smokey. 'I am Hood's Sword.

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#6. Remember this - the truth of what really happens anywhere at any time can never be retrieved or known. All that matters are the reviews.

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#7. You're right that it's worthless. All coins are worthless. It's just that some are worth less than others.

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#8. Give and give of y'self till there's nothing left! Only then can you have something! If you take, you diminish things till there's nothing left. If you give, you provide and things grow! Yes?

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#9. He knew that music spoke to the emotions, not the intellect. The heart was where people truly lived, and died. He also knew that this magic that music and poetry were said to possess was the power to touch that heart.

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#10. Burdens willingly taken on, he decided, come to define the bearer. 'So

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#11. There is much running of vomit and faeces on board this ship. Please stop adding to it.

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#12. Ware the cold, human. Ware the ice that grips. The frost that silences.

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#13. Did we not look out together upon the dark waters of the lake
And behold there the constellations
Of both hemispheres at once?

-Love Songs of the Cinnamon Wastes

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#14. Who are you,' it boomed, 'to light a fire here in the depths of Himatan?'

[...]

'Someone who would dare to do so,' Pon-lor shouted down. 'Think you on that.

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#15. The truth was, most people simply weren't worth one's attention. *

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#16. Battle is for an army to win or lose; war is for civilization to win or lose.

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#17. When you do not recognize the wrongs of the past, the future takes its revenge. -Author forgotten

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#18. I've come to understand that the truth isn't really what's important ... what really matters is what people agree is the truth. -Greymane

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#19. The problem with paths is that once you have chosen one, You cannot choose the others. Attributed to Gothos

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#20. Damn them for tormenting me! Don't they see I'm not what they think? That they are casting upon me the weight of their own hopes? Their own dreams? No one should be asked to carry such a burden. It's impossible! He

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#21. Scillara was not cruel; she was simply not interested and he did not hold this against her. It seemed to him that frankly most people by temperament and character should not be thrust into the role of parents. She was simply uncharacteristic in admitting it. He

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#22. Speak not to me of the meddling Jaghut!

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#23. Memories are not the truth of the past. We sculpt them to suit our images of our present selves. And, in any case, the truth of then is not the truth of now.

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#24. The perfume of power. The musk of money? He frowned. Well, no, maybe not that one.

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#25. - I blame the drink, sir.
- You wouldn't have any of it left, would you?
- Used it to poison the enemy, sir
- And a sad waste it was too
- The bottle got a promotion out of it though, sir

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#26. when you think everyone around you is mad, that's then you should start to suspect it's actually you.

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#27. Perhaps it is the case that no organization or hierarchy can withstand the closest of scrutiny. Not even a smugly self-touted meritocracy. The success and persistence of utter fools everywhere is sad testament to that.

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#28. Do not apologize. Offer sarcasm.

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