“It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.”
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“I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives: for all the scents of green things growing, each breath is but an exhalation of the grave. Bodies jerk like puppet corpses, and hell walks laughing— Laughing”
― Lord Foul's Bane
― Lord Foul's Bane
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