Glen Cook Quotes

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• Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.

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  Good Morning, Monday, Good Day

  Glen Cook (1990). “Sweet Silver Blues”, p.42, Penguin

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• The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.

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  Men, Helping, Aids

  Glen Cook (2008). “The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company”, p.398, Macmillan

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• Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all, it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English.

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  Writing, Ideas, Giving

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• Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

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  Historical, Cynicism, Precedent

  Glen Cook (2008). “The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company”, p.55, Macmillan

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• There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.

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  Heart, Dark, Coward

  Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.331, Macmillan

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• Consistency is the sign of a narrow mind.

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  Consistency, Mind, Narrow Minds

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• I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.

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  Essence, Romance, Different

  Glen Cook (2010). “The Many Deaths of the Black Company”, p.747, Macmillan

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• There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.

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  Lying, Self, Evil

  Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.79, Macmillan

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• A world ought to have a few genuine good guys, and not just a spectrum of people running from bad to worse.

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  Running, People, Guy

  Glen Cook (1983). “A Shadow of All Night Falling”, Berkley

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• More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.

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  Names, Evil, Done

  Glen Cook (2008). “The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company”, p.311, Macmillan

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• Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

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  Soldier, Wonder, Guilty

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• I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing we are just plain nice folks.

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  Honesty, Nice, Lying

  Glen Cook (2008). “The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company”, p.31, Macmillan

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• Even when we know things, sometimes it takes words to make them concrete.

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  Sometimes, Concrete, Knows

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• Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.

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  Dream, Men, Rich

  Glen Cook (2010). “The Many Deaths of the Black Company”, p.314, Macmillan

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• Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

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  Moving, Rational, Hammered

  Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.391, Macmillan

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• No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have never understood why, in a universe so vast, a god would care about something so trivial as worship or human destiny.

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  Destiny, Insanity, Shadow

  "The White Rose". Book by Glen Cook, 1985.

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• My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.

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  Sports, Beer, Female

  Glen Cook (1988). “Cold Copper Tears”, p.8, Penguin

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• If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance.

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  Fighting, Men, Guy

  Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.79, Macmillan

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• I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.

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  Past, Men, Needs

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• Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

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  Men, Soul, Aliens

  Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.50, Macmillan

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• The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much evil man con conjure by existing.

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  Men, Two, People

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• I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its face and see its wonders, but when I go down, there will be no child to carry my name, no family to mourn me save my comrades, no one to remember, no one to raise a marker over my cold bit of ground.

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  Children, Names, Laughing

  Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.243, Macmillan

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• Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.

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  Player, Games, White

  Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.368, Macmillan

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• Where there is no waste, there is no want.

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  Want, Waste

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• . . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.

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  Lying, Being True, Knows

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