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“We’ll draw lots. We’ll let God decide.” “Poor God,” Blackthorne said. “The stupidities He gets blamed for!”
Rodrigues hawked and spat.
Hawk tuah
“Speaking Spanish makes me want to retch, even though you can swear better in it than any language.
there’s no fanatic like a converted fanatic,
“Their faith—their version of Christianity is a false interpretation of the Scriptures.” “Ah! At last we’re getting somewhere. So you’re at war through a difference of opinion about what is God or not God?” “Yes.” “That’s a very stupid reason to go to war.”
“There are no ‘mitigating circumstances’ when it comes to rebellion against a sovereign lord.” “Unless you win.”
“I cannot conceive of being enemy to you.” “I can, very easily. What then?”
How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.
Samurai should be well versed in the arts of peace to be strong for the arts of war.”
Toranaga eased his kimono and loincloth aside, as did Yabu. Together they urinated and mixed their urine and watched it dew the garden below.
“Anjin-san, forget the village. A thousand million things can happen before those six months occur. A tidal wave or earthquake, or you get your ship and sail away, or Yabu dies, or we all die, or who knows? Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you’re here and nothing you can do will change that. Today you’re alive and here and honored, and blessed with good fortune. Look at this sunset, it’s beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in
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