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Book: The Black Company
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Glen Cook _ The Black Company
There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints.
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Glen Cook _ The Black Company
Part of winning is a downdeep certainty that, no matter how bad things look, a road to victory will open."
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Glen Cook _ The Black Company
But maybe there is a force for greater good, created by our unconscious minds conjoined, that becomes an independent power greater than the sum of its parts.
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Glen Cook _ The Black Company
I am not religious. I cannot conceive of gods who would give a damn about humanity's frothy carryings-on. I mean, logically, beings of that order just wouldn't.
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Glen Cook _ The Black Company
Singed," he said, assuming that air of phony dignity cats adopt after some particularly inept performance. Something like, "That's what I meant to do all along.
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Glen Cook _ The Black Company
Little girls are twice as precious and innocent as little boys. I do not know a culture that does not make them that way.
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Glen Cook _ The Black Company
The Hanged Man stopped gesturing and struck a pose: man listening.
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Glen Cook _ The Black Company
He surveyed his audience with that look of sublime solemnity only a drunk can muster.
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Glen Cook _ The Black Company
Evil is relative, Annalist. You can't hang a sign on it. You can't touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.
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Glen Cook _ The Black Company
Okay, Croaker. What the hell happened?""I don't know. The falling sickness?""Give him some of his own soup," somebody suggested. "Serve him right." A tin cup appeared. We forced its contents down his throat.His eye clicked open. "What are you trying to do? Poison me? Feh! What was that? Boiled sewage?""Your soup," I told him.
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Glen Cook _ The Black Company
The lower ranks have the privilege of questioning the sanity and competence of their commanders. It's the mortar holding an army together.
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Glen Cook _ The Black Company
Closer at hand, the wheeling gulls were as surly and lackadaisical as the day promised to make most men.
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