The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
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But some things have to be done. It’s better to do them, than to live with the fear of them.
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“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse.”
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The great wage secret wars for power and wealth, and they call it government.
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But that was civilisation, so far as Logen could tell. People with nothing better to do, dreaming up ways to make easy things difficult.
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the conversation of the drunk is only interesting to the drunk. A few glasses of wine can be the difference between finding a man a hilarious companion or an insufferable moron.
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friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time, and had never got anywhere. He had no interest in that arrangement.
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Well. What can we do, except try to do better?