“Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table. The notion of having the conference first doesn't seem to occur to people.”

— David Eddings , book Belgarath the Sorcerer

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American novelist 1931–2009

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