Glen Cook Quotes
born 1944 United States
Glen Charles Cook (born July 9, 1944) is a contemporary American science fiction and fantasy writer, best known for The Black Company and Garrett P.I. fantasy series.
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226 quotes
Time has a way of blunting the sharpest edge of determination.
Raven muttered, “You don’t have to be brilliant to be a god.”
The human capacity for mischief is boundless.
Against the years all men campaign in vain.
Time is the most wicked of all villains.
When the going gets tough, the smart get going and the stupid keep heading toward trouble.
“That your solution to everything? Cut somebody’s throat?”
“Always slows them down.”
Generating rumors is one thing even the most inept armed force does exceedingly well.
The essence of sorcery, even for its nonfraudulent practitioners, is misdirection.
Asking a storyteller not to embellish is like asking a fish to give up water.
Ignorance is a chink in the armor a knowledgeable enemy can exploit at will.
“Used to be” is not worth the breeze on which it is scribbled.
I tend toward the cynical view where religion is concerned.
We are all the sum total of our pasts, good and evil.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Glen Cook (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.