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Quotes from House of Chains — Steven Erikson

born 1959 Canada

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The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

House of Chains (2002)

An army that waits is soon an army at war with itself.

House of Chains (2002)

But now Apsalar was trying to tell him that competence was not justification. That necessity demanded its own path and there was no virtue to be found at its heart.

House of Chains (2002)

With ever greater frequency they annihilate themselves, for success breeds contempt for those very qualities that purchased it.

House of Chains (2002)

Not that freedom ensured happiness. Indeed, to be free was to live in absence. Of responsibilities, of loyalties, of the pressures that expectation imposed.

House of Chains (2002)

Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.

House of Chains (2002)

Attribution

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