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Quotes from Cold Copper Tears — Glen Cook

born 1944 United States

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To me wine is just so much spoiled fruit juice.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

I had forgotten the first rule: everybody lies about sex, and the client always lies about it.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

The pill-brain microdeity whose mission is to mess with my life was on the job.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

The human capacity for mischief is boundless.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

When the going gets tough, the smart get going and the stupid keep heading toward trouble.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

The only thing that comes easy is trouble.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

The runt seemed awfully reasonable for a supposed raving fanatic. I guess the first talent a priest develops is acting ability.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

She wanted to be crazy. She said when you’re crazy the truth is whatever you want it to be. She wanted what she remembered not to be true.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

Already some who never questioned have begun to wonder if all religion isn’t just a shell game perpetrated by societies of con men who milk the gullible.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

Every revelation slashes Belief with a brutal razor. Already some who never questioned have begun to wonder if all religion isn’t just a shell game perpetrated by societies of con men who milk the gullible.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

I took nothing at face. Everywhere I turned religion popped up, and that’s a game of masks and deceit and illusions if ever there was one.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

I had a thought. That happens. So do lunar eclipses.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

I didn’t know him. That was all right. There are a lot of people I don’t know, but I wondered if he was one of the ones I wanted to keep on not knowing.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

Really? It made a crazy sense. Maybe perfect sense to somebody in the religion business.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

Next thing I knew I wasn’t alone. And the someone with me was very warm, very naked, and very female. And very determined. And I sure don’t have much will power.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

Do you comprehend the idea of symbol? You say you accept sorcery. The very root of sorcery is manipulation of symbol in a way that affects referent. And that’s the root of religion, too.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

People don’t want to be told to do right. They don’t really want to do right. They want to do whatever they want—and whine that it’s not fair, it’s not their fault, when it comes time to pay the piper.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

However, proof or lack thereof are unnecessary to the mind that must believe. And that mind becomes doubly narrow and doubly dangerous when it is given what it perceives as proof. Then it can begin to create that in which it believes.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

Halfway up I met an old priest. He smiled and nodded benevolently, one of those guys who are what priests are supposed to be, and as a consequence, remain at the foot of the episcopal ladder throughout their lives.

Cold Copper Tears (1988)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Glen Cook (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.