Why was he incensed? A prolonged exchange failed to illuminate me. No godless person can comprehend those minute distinctions in doctrine that provide true believers excuse for mayhem. It is hard enough to accept the fact that they really believe the nonsense of their faiths. I always wonder if they are pulling my leg with a straight face.
Source: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter 58 (pp. 414-415)
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“We all do that. In every day life it’s called making excuses.”
True, raw motives are too rough to swallow. By the time most people reach my age, they have glossed their motives so often and so well they fall completely out of touch with them.
Source: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 4, “Whisper” (p. 115)
“My apprentices were exasperating. They were competing to see who was laziest.”
Source: Short Fiction, Bone Eaters (2015), p. 230
Source: Short Fiction, Bone Eaters (2015), p. 230
“Literacy is sorcery itself in the hinterland.”
Source: Short Fiction, Bone Eaters (2015), p. 229