Steven Galloway Quotes

#1. If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.

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#2. There are those here who believe they are right simply because they oppose something that is evil.

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#3. Civilisation isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, recreated daily. It vanishes far more quickly than he even would have thought possible.

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#4. If this city is to die, it won't be because of the men on the hills, it will be because of the people in the valley. When they're content to live with death, to become what the men on the hills want them to be, then Sarajevo will die.

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#5. There is no way to tell which version of a lie is the truth.

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#6. A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.

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#7. It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a moment before impact that was the last instant of things as they were. Then the visible world exploded.

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#8. We are all glass soldiers.

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#9. ... life is a series of tiny, unavoidable decisions.

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#10. The fingers on his flesh told him he was loved, that he had always been loved, and that the world was a place where above all else things that were good would find a way to burrow into you.

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#11. You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.

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#12. A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't.

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#13. By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain number of Adagios left in him, and he will not recklessly spend this precious currency.

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#14. I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do.

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#15. The opportunity to die was everywhere, and it just wasn't surprising when that opportunity became an event.

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#16. Do they hate the idea of her, because she's different from them, and that in this difference there might be some sort of inferiority or superiority that is hers or theirs, that in the end threatens the potential happiness of everyone?

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#17. The choices she's made have left her without choice.

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