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Quotes from Magician: Master — Raymond E. Feist

born 1945 United States

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The path of power is a path of turns within turns.

Magician: Master (1982)

All creatures fear change, even the gods.

Magician: Master (1982)

But when you’ve seen as many different lands as I have, you learn that the more things look different, the more they are the same.

Magician: Master (1982)

I am!—he cries, and a million philosophies cry out in wonder.

Magician: Master (1982)

Aye, and it’s a brave dwarf who loots a dragon’s lair.

Magician: Master (1982)

Love is like a lot of things, it is always best done with the head. Save mindless efforts for mindless things.

Magician: Master (1982)

As I thought. That man’s got the heart of a shark, which is to say none, and the courage of a jellyfish, which is also to say none.

Magician: Master (1982)

Many men do things they regret later. Only a few are granted the opportunity to make amends.

Magician: Master (1982)

I think I know what power can do, and what sort of men seek it.

Magician: Master (1982)

The war goes on. Good for the merchants, bad for the rest.

Magician: Master (1982)

I see myself as a servant of the gods, though that may be only my vanity speaking.

Magician: Master (1982)

“We have an old saying: ‘In the High Council, there is no brother.’”

Magician: Master (1982)

That you have lived as you have lived for centuries is no license for this cruelty. All here are now judged, and all are found wanting.

Magician: Master (1982)

What they teach you is useful, but never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.

Magician: Master (1982)

There is only one thing I know of that a woman hates more than a man she doesn’t like paying her too much attention—and that’s lack of attention from a man she does like.

Magician: Master (1982)

He was always complaining of there being so much to learn and so little time to learn it. And that from a man who had lived years beyond numbering.

Magician: Master (1982)

The Empire must change its course, or it is doomed to fall. The rotten, weak heart of this culture cannot support its own weight much longer, and like a ngaggi tree with a rotten core, it will collapse under its own weight.

Magician: Master (1982)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Raymond E. Feist (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.