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Trouble with the good fight, I find … once the fight starts, the good stops.’
But then it’s difficult, isn’t it, to make a passionate argument for what you already have? So boring. Whereas the delightful alternative? A bouquet of promises! A sackful of dreams! A glorious ship of fantasies, undamaged by collision with actually getting anything done.’
‘Ah! A ray of sunshine penetrates the long night of your ignorance.’
It’s easy to scream about the fence when you’re on the wrong side of it. Some mad twist of fortune lands you on the right side, though, the fence starts to look like it might not be such a bad idea. Might even be worth all the sacrifices. Other people’s sacrifices aren’t that hard to make.
They say belief is righteous, but to Muslan only doubt was divine. From doubt flows curiosity, and knowledge, and progress. From belief flows only ignorance and decay.
‘Have a smile at breakfast,’ droned Shivers, stony-faced, ‘you’ll be shitting joy by lunch.’
‘All that work,’ said Orso. ‘All that effort. All that ingenuity, and courage, and struggle, to make what? Corpses.’ ‘Few things indeed,’ mused Pike, ‘seem to have so much appeal before, and so little after, as a battle.’
