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What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.

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The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformit...more

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The closest I ever got to Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms was when I bought the box game set for the latter (I think this was before the novels came ...more

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Dour music has its own beauty, for the song of ruin is most fertile.

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A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware...more

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Silence!” Korbolo snapped. He eyed Duiker. “You are the historian who rode with Coltaine.”The historian faced him. “I am.”“You are a soldier.”“As you ...more

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People of civilized countenance made much of exposing the soft underbellies of their psyche - effete and sensitive were the brands of finer breeding. ...more

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She watched with morbid fascination as they gathered at the stumps at the ends of the man's wrists, the old scar tissue the only place on him unclaime...more

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Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.