Where there is no waste, there is no want. Glen Cook More Quotes by Glen Cook More Quotes From Glen Cook I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another. Glen Cook evilmenbelieve Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger. Glen Cook cuttingtasteevil . . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you. Glen Cook being-trueknowslying There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them. Glen Cook dustonce-upon-a-timedream I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time. Glen Cook bigssufferingspirit The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques. Glen Cook realwritingcharacter Even when we know things, sometimes it takes words to make them concrete. Glen Cook concreteknowssometimes The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much evil man con conjure by existing. Glen Cook mentwopeople I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing we are just plain nice folks. Glen Cook honestynicelying Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul. Glen Cook alienssoulmen Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe. Glen Cook believebooklying
