Steven Erikson Quotes

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• The lesson of history is that no one learns.

  Steven Erikson

  Lessons

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• The heart of wisdom is tolerance.

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  Heart, Tolerance

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Memories of Ice: (Malazan Book of the Fallen: Book 3)”, p.955, Random House

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• Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.

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  Wise, Ducks, Arrows

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Deadhouse Gates: (Malazan Book Of Fallen 2)”, p.179, Random House

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• Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in the belief that necessity forces conformity, and conformity a certain stability. In a world shaped into conformity, dissidents stand out, are easily branded and dealt with. There is no multitude of perspectives, no dialogue. The victim assumes the face of the tyrant, self-righteous and intransigent, and wars breed like vermin. And people die.

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  War, Fall, Self

  "Midnight Tides". Book by Steven Erikson, 2004.

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• There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.

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  Struggle, Fall, Odds

  "Toll The Hounds". Book by Steven Erikson, June 30, 2008.

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• Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

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  Dirty, Ambition, Compromise

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)”, p.17, Random House

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• Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

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  Children, Fantasy Novels, Dying

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• Evil is nothing but a word, an objectification where no objectification is necessary. Cast aside this notion of some external agency as the source of inconceivable inhumanity - the sad truth is our possession of an innate proclivity towards indifference, towards deliberate denial of mercy, towards disengaging all that is moral within us. But if that is too dire , let's call it evil. And paint it with fire and venom.

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  Fire, Agency, Evil

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• We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the wold. It must be given freely. In abundance.

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  Believe, Compassion, Knowing

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• Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering. Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them. Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.

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  Diversity, Suffering, Doe

  Steven Erikson (2009). “The Bonehunters: Malazan Book Of Fallen 6”, p.1125, Random House

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• The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

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  Promise, Surprise, One Thing

  Steven Erikson (2009). “House Of Chains: Malazan Book Of The Fallen 4”, p.393, Random House

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• Can you live without answers? All of you, ask that of yourself. Can you live without answers? Because if you cannot, then most assuredly you will invent your own answers and they will comfort you. And all those who do not share your view will by their very existence strike fear and hatred into your heart. What god blesses this?

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  Heart, Views, Hatred

  "Toll the Hounds (". Book by Steven Erikson, 2008.

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• The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.

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  Grief, Soul, Ends

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• It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.

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  Pain, Stranger, Acts Of Courage

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• Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.

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  Lying, Mean, Destiny

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• The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former grows ever wilder, ever more dysfunctional in its extremities; whilst the latter seeks to increase its measure of control, until such efforts acquire diabolical tyranny.' - Traveller

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  War, Civilization, Effort

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• No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.

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  Children, Artist, Imagine

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Toll The Hounds: The Malazan Book of the Fallen 8”, p.530, Random House

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• When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

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  Fire, Bridges, Behind You

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Memories of Ice: (Malazan Book of the Fallen: Book 3)”, p.953, Random House

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• More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the armour of adulthood. Armour encumbers, restricts the body and soul within it. But it also protects. Blows are blunted. Feelings lose their edge, leaving us to suffer naught but a plague of bruises, and, after a time, bruises fade.

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  Children, Blow, Leaving

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Memories of Ice: (Malazan Book of the Fallen: Book 3)”, p.160, Random House

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• All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.

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  Art, Self, Risk

  "Why Did You Bother Telling Me That?: Steven Erikson Talks with Peter Orullian". Interview with Peter Orullian, www.tor.com. August 13, 2012.

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• All that we were has led us to where we are, but tells us little of where we’re going. Memories are a weight you can never shrug off.

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  Memories, Weight, Littles

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• You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

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  Prejudice, Apes, Source

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• Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all feelings. Grief isolates, and every ritual, every gesture, every embrace, is a hopeless effort to break through that isolation. None of it works. The forms crumble and dissolve. To face death is to stand alone.

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  Grief, Break Through, Effort

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• Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.

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  Dear God, Dear, Mess

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• Kallor said: "I walked this land when the T'lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand strong. I have spread the fire of my wrath across entire continents, and sat alone upon tall thrones. Do you grasp the meaning of this?" "Yes," said Caladan Brood, "you never learn."

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  Strong, Children, Army

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)”, p.323, Random House

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