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1. "He was astonished at how calm he found he was. Fear of death had always energised him, making him move far more quickly than his body should have been capable of, accelerating his reactions and his thought process to a quite incredible level. This time, though, he only thought, Oh, and realised that he didn't really care all that much. He could feel his responsibilities, the love of others towards him, the unfulfilled possibilities; they were like a child's hand trying to pull him up, doing its best but simply not strong enough for the job. Above all, there was no blame. I tried to climb a wall, but I couldn't, and there it is. " ~ K.J. Parker
2. "Bir seyi yapmanin en çabuk, en kolay ve en ucuz yolu ilk seferinde düzgün yapmaktir." ~ K.J. Parker
3. "Aidi nodded. "Lying to yourself's always a problem," he said." ~ K.J. Parker
4. "The public," he said, "bless them. It's the same in tailoring: they always think they know more about your job than you do, and then you get the blame when it ends up looking a mess." He" ~ K.J. Parker
5. "He turned away, and suddenly she thought about the old children's story, where the stupid girl opens the box that God gave her, and all the evils of the world fly out, except Hope, which stays at the bottom; and she wondered what Hope was doing in there in the first place, in with all the bad things. Then the answer came to her, and she wondered how she could've been so stupid. Hope was in there because it was evil too, probably the worst of them all, so heavy with malice and pain that it couldn't drag itself out of the opened box." ~ K.J. Parker
6. "Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't." ~ K.J. Parker
7. "Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you." ~ K.J. Parker
8. "If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?" ~ K.J. Parker
9. "War is an admission of failure" ~ K.J. Parker
10. "There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way." ~ K.J. Parker
11. "A quiet life," Stheno replied. "You wouldn't think it was a lot to ask."The Hammer" ~ K.J. Parker
12. "…if medical science is geography, then mankind as a species has a map with three towns marked on it and a lot of blank space with drawings of sea serpents." ~ K.J. Parker
13. "Age is irrelevant where two people have deep, sincere feelings for each other." ~ K.J. Parker
14. "When you come to rely on the written word, it's time to light the fire with it." ~ K.J. Parker
15. "The idea is to make the space around you into a zone where nothing mortal can survive." ~ K.J. Parker
16. "Ah". Tzimisces smiled. "Let me guess. Flowery periphrases, back-to-back literary allusions and quotations from thousand-year-old authors. A marked reluctance to use one word when twelve can be jammed in if you sit on the lid." ~ K.J. Parker
17. "When she started crying, all he wanted to do was hit her." ~ K.J. Parker
18. "I'd finally given her what she wanted,the elixir of eternal youth, effected by the removal of her internal fire (thecatalyst of change) through the agency of death." ~ K.J. Parker
19. "For what it was worth, she got the impression that Niessa liked her, or at least approved of her, in the same way a chess-player approves of one of his pieces when it stays where it's been put and doesn't go wandering off all over the board." ~ K.J. Parker
20. "His mother collected medicines, rather in the way a boy collects coins or seals or arrowheads; one or two genuine pieces, along with a whole load of junk." ~ K.J. Parker
21. "We hold that you can't own anything that four strong men can't lift." ~ K.J. Parker
22. "Most wars start because someone makes a mistake, and most battles are lost by the losing side rather than won by the victors. I'm not sure if that makes things better or worse. I suppose it depends on which you disapprove of more, malice or stupidity." ~ K.J. Parker
23. "he couldn't even write his name. When he was Emperor, he had to sign documents with a stencil." ~ K.J. Parker
24. "It's the way my mind works, when it works at all. Things to do today: settle down, achieve serenity, live happily ever after. Tick the box and move on." ~ K.J. Parker
25. "Here lies Mago the boxer, of whom it may honestly be said that he never harmed anybody." ~ K.J. Parker

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They got drunk and high on a regular basis, but this is a vestige of youth that you either quit while you're young or you become an addict if you don't die. If you are the Old Guy In The Punk House, move out. You have a substance abuse problem."
Author: Bucky Sinister

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