If brains were glazier’s putty, he couldn’t weatherproof a windowless room.
If war is too important to trust to generals, then policy is too important to trust to politicians.
Fright tends to fatten up on ignorance
I’m going to adopt you. You’d make a wonderful daughter. Hey, evil-minded future daughter number two. You heard Arkana. What do you think? Grudgingly, Shukrat admitted, I think she’s right. Excellent!...
Lately I’ve felt the burden of time more and more, all too often dwelling on everything I’ve missed. I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I r...
Lucky me, I’d ended up just getting another lesson revealing the basic blackness lying below the human heart. Once again I’d seen that, given incentive and opportunity, most anybody will jump at the c...
Maybe. We're all equals at the dark gate, no? The sands run for us all. Life is but a flicker shouting into the jaws of eternity. But it seems so damned unfair!
Mistakes that cost lives aren’t easy to understand or forgive, but they happen. Despite what they want us mortals to believe, doctors are human. And where there are human beings, there’s human error....
My arguments were beginning to sound a little strained to me, too. I was in the position of a priest trying to sell religion.
The first thing I saw was a mottled green face half a yard wide staring through the broken window. I said something intelligent like, Gleep! The face grinned. It was a groll, a hybrid of human, troll,...
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.
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....
One-Eye scowled at Goblin. Keep it up, Barf Bag. You’ll be grocery shopping with the turtles. What the hell did that mean? Some kind of obscure shop talk? But Goblin was as croggled as the rest of us....
Only way you’re gonna have a world with universal equality is if you got one where there’s only one guy left standing.
Quite unwittingly I saved the lives of twenty enemies of the Stranglers scheduled to be tortured and murdered during the night. The priests freed them to tell the world that the Deceivers were real an...
Seems to know you, the Captain observed. He thought I was dead. Jalena rejoined his party. He gabbled and pointed. Pale-faced men looked our way. They argued briefly, then the whole lot fled the garde...
She is the darkness.
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.
The Lady was medicine bad enough. The Dominator, though, was the body of which her evil was but a shadow. Or so the legend goes. I sometimes wonder why, if that is true, she walks the earth and he lie...
If each man picks an evil and attacks it relentlessly, how long can evil persist?That was an easy one. Forever. More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.
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