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Book cover for Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
‘Alright. Tell me something, then. Am I . . .’ He struggled to find the right words. ‘Am I . . . an evil man?’ ‘You?’ Jezal stared at him, confused. ‘You’re the best man I know.’
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I agree, a bastard but one with a heart of gold, unless The Great Leveller is swinging a sword.
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Guy Gavriel Kay
“Writers of history often seek the dramatic over the truth. It is a failing of the profession.”
Guy Gavriel Kay, Sailing to Sarantium

Stephen Fry
“No labour was more Heraclean than the labour of being Heracles.”
Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures

“A man may rot like an egg: His shell does not show it, but all that is within him has gone foul.”
Josiah Bancroft, The Hod King

Tennessee Williams
“BLANCHE: You see I still have that awful vanity about my looks even now that my looks are slipping!”
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

John  Williams
“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
John Williams, Stoner

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