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40 quotes
American fantasy writer (1948–2007)
“A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.”
"What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie."
on Truth
"Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses."
on Wisdom
"Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope."
on Life
"In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping."
"In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes"
on War
"If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third."
"Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won."
"If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know."
"Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again."
on Dreams
"Death is lighter than a feather. Duty, heavier than a mountain."
on Death
"One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today."
on Happiness
"Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive."
"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow."
on Time
"Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile."
on Humor
"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."
"No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light."
on Hope
"Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier."
on Love
"What you practice too often, you use without thinking."
"To believe a thing is not to make it true."
"Small hopes can grow surprising fruit."
on Inspirational
