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Glen Charles Cook – amerykański pisarz fantasy i science fiction.

Wychował się w północnej Kalifornii. Zaczął pisać w siódmej klasie. Marzył, by zostać pilotem Phantoma F-4, ale ostatecznie trafił do oddziałów specjalnych US Marine Corps . Wojskową karierę podjął syn Glena, natomiast autor przez kilkadziesiąt lat pracował w różnych fabrykach koncernu General Motors. Uczęszczał na Uniwersytet Missouri i warsztaty dla pisarzy Clarion. Pierwszy utwór opublikował w 1970.

Doświadczenia ze służby w armii przenosi na karty swoich książek .

Sam mówi o sobie: W przeciwieństwie do większości pisarzy, nie wykonywałem żadnego dziwnego zawodu jak np. skubanie kurczaków. Moim jedynym pracodawcą jest od lat General Motors. Ze względu na zmianę położenia zakładu, Glen ograniczył pisanie od 1988 roku. Następnie przeszedł na emeryturę i całkowicie poświęcił się pisaniu.

Jako swoje hobby, Cook wymienia zbieranie znaczków, książek oraz historię wojny. Glen Cook jest częstym gościem konwentów.

Najbardziej znany z cyklu dark fantasy o przygodach bractwa najemników – Czarnej Kompanii. Popularność przyniosła mu również seria detektywistyczno-sensacyjna w klimatach fantasy o detektywie Garretcie. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. Lipiec 1944
Glen Cook Fotografia
Glen Cook: 209 cytatów0 Polubień

Glen Cook słynne cytaty

„Pamięć jest pewnego rodzaju nieśmiertelnością. Nocą, kiedy wiatr ustaje i cisza włada równiną lśniącego kamienia, pamiętam. A oni wszyscy znów żyją.”

Glen Cook Czarna Kompania

Źródło: Czarna Kompania, tłum. Jan Karłowski

„Fortuna to niestała dziwka zwariowana na punkcie ironii.”

Glen Cook

Cień w ukryciu (1984)

„Kim, u diabła, jesteście? – zapytał ochrypłym szeptem. – Czarna Kompania, Chłop. Czarna Kompania. Nie wiem, jak mu się to udało, ale pobladł jeszcze bardziej.”

Glen Cook

Cień w ukryciu (1984)

„Kim, u diabła, jesteście? – zapytał ochrypłym szeptem.”

Glen Cook Czarna Kompania

Czarna Kompania, Chłop. Czarna Kompania. Nie wiem, jak mu się to udało, ale pobladł jeszcze bardziej.
Cień w ukryciu (1984)

Glen Cook: Cytaty po angielsku

“I have seen it before. Little people have to hate, have to blame someone for their own inadequacies.”

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Glen Cook książka Shadows Linger

Źródło: Shadows Linger (1984), Chapter 33, “Juniper: The Encounter” (p. 370)

“Blade grumbled about the absurdities of the theological imagination and why didn’t people have sense enough to smother would-be priests in their cradles?”

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Glen Cook Dreams of Steel

Źródło: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter 10 (p. 261)

“Why do sorcerers always use languages nobody understands? Even Goblin and One-Eye do it. Each has confided that he cannot follow the tongue the other uses. Maybe they make it up?”

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Glen Cook książka The White Rose

Źródło: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 53, “The Recovery” (p. 677)

“I must be alive. Otherwise I wouldn’t hurt so much.”

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Glen Cook książka Water Sleeps

Źródło: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 91 (p. 328)

“I have always found the religious tolerance of the southerners amazing and disconcerting, though it was really only an ancient habit predicated on the fact that no religious community was strong enough to show the rest the errors in their thinking at swordspoint.”

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Glen Cook książka She Is the Darkness

Źródło: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 60 (p. 481)

“Ignorance is a chink in the armor a knowledgeable enemy can exploit at will.”

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Glen Cook książka She Is the Darkness

Źródło: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 54 (p. 462)

“She—and I—were of an age now where we spent too much time wondering how things might have gone had we made a few different choices.”

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Glen Cook książka Soldiers Live

Źródło: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 38, “The Taglian Territories: The Dandha Presh” (p. 502)

“Fools can make an omen of anything in retrospect.”

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Glen Cook Czarna Kompania

Źródło: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 1, “Legate” (p. 11)

“I did not expect them to try anything but I am alive at my age because I make a habit of being ready for trouble when it seems most unlikely.”

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Glen Cook książka Soldiers Live

Źródło: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 33, “Khatovar: Leave-taking” (p. 488)

“This soiree must have been so big that if held today, we’d call it a war. Or at least a riot. On and on. So-and-so of such-and-such, with Lady Who’s-is, sixteen titles, four of which made sense. By the time the heralds finished proclaiming everyone, the party must have died of encroaching senility.”

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Glen Cook książka The White Rose

Źródło: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 43, “Picnic” (p. 643)

““That your solution to everything? Cut somebody’s throat?”
“Always slows them down.””

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Glen Cook Dreams of Steel

Źródło: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter 10 (p. 258)

“The world sure isn’t kind to the man who tries to be gentle and thoughtful.”

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Glen Cook książka Bleak Seasons

Źródło: Bleak Seasons (1996), Chapter 40 (p. 113)

“I felt wonderfully wicked. I always do when I frustrate overly powerful, responsible-to-no-one types who think all existence was created only for their pleasure and exploitation.”

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Glen Cook książka Soldiers Live

Źródło: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 48, “The Shadowgate: The Warlords of the Air” (p. 530)

“Though not as bad as most, he was going through that stage where he knew everything worth knowing and nothing his elders said—particularly if it bore any vaguely education hue—was worth hearing. He could not help that. It went with the age.
And I was my age and could not help saying things I knew would do no good.”

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Glen Cook książka Water Sleeps

Źródło: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 4 (p. 18)

“I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward 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.”

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Glen Cook książka Shadow Games

Źródło: Shadow Games (1989), Chapter 5, “Chains of Empire” (p. 30)

“A sign of advancing age. You start obsessing about how much you have to get done in the time that you have left.”

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Glen Cook książka Soldiers Live

Źródło: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 43, “The Taglian Shadowlands: The Shadowgate” (p. 514)

“He was a lawyer before he worked his way up to pimping.”

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Glen Cook Czarna Kompania

Źródło: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 1, “Legate” (p. 23)

“Ever since childhood I have suspected you get along better if you respect people’s ways and wishes regardless of your apparent relative strengths.
That doesn’t mean you let people walk on you. It doesn’t mean you eat their pain for them. You need to demand respect for yourself, too.”

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Glen Cook książka Bleak Seasons

Źródło: Bleak Seasons (1996), Chapter 25 (p. 67)

“I sped a prayer heavenward. God needs to be reminded.”

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Glen Cook książka Water Sleeps

Źródło: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 75 (p. 265)

“Fickle folk. A little hunger and stress and they forgot all about liberty.”

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Glen Cook książka Bleak Seasons

Źródło: Bleak Seasons (1996), Chapter 71 (p. 197)

““I’ve been on my own before, Mather.” And I hadn’t been happy a moment. But happiness is a fleeting creature. It’s no birthright. Not anything I expect but something I accept when I tumble into it. Meantime, power will do nicely.”

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Glen Cook Dreams of Steel

Źródło: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter 14 (p. 276)

“It is not necessarily for mercenary soldiers to know what is going on. It is sufficient for them to do the job for which they have taken the gold. That had been drummed into me from the moment I enlisted. There is neither right nor wrong, neither good nor evil, only our side and theirs. The honor of the company lies within, directed one brother toward another. Without, honor lies only in keeping faith with the sponsor.”

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Glen Cook książka Shadow Games

Źródło: Shadow Games (1989), Chapter 28, “Back to Scouting” (p. 148)

“Suvrin had a little too much of the politician in him. Too much of the kind of mind willing to let an individual go so the rest will not be inconvenienced.”

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Glen Cook książka Soldiers Live

Źródło: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 139, “Taglios: The Great General” (p. 762)

“The list of cities lost was long and disheartening, even granting exaggeration by the reporters. Soldiers defeated always overestimate the strength of their foe. That soothes egos suspecting their own inferiority.”

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Glen Cook Czarna Kompania

Źródło: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 5, “Harden” (p. 160)

“She is not one to disdain truth indefinitely only because it is unpleasant.”

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Glen Cook książka The White Rose

Źródło: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 42, “Homecoming” (p. 639)

“I don’t think she told any lies. She just forgot to tell the whole truth.”

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Glen Cook Dreams of Steel

Źródło: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter 10 (p. 263)

“There were too many secret things going on. And too many perfectly banal, openmouthed evils driven by ambition or fanaticism distracting everyone from the creeping apocalypse.”

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Glen Cook

Źródło: Lord of the Silent Kingdom (2007), Chapter 20 (pp. 518)

““We’re still the Black Company. We still don’t leave our own behind.” Which was never strictly true but you do have to serve an ideal the best you can, lest it become debased. A law as ancient as coinage itself says bad money will drive out good. The same is true of principles, ethics and rules of conduct. If you always do the easier thing, then you cannot possible remain steadfast when it becomes necessary to take a difficult stand. You must do what you know to be right. And you do know. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred you do know and you are just making excuses because the right thing is so hard, or just inconvenient.”

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Glen Cook książka Water Sleeps

Źródło: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 72 (pp. 255-256)

“She had a full measure of youth’s indifference to the past.”

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Glen Cook książka Soldiers Live

Źródło: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 79, “The Taglian Territories: In Motion” (p. 620)

“A teacher?”
“Yes. He argued that we are the gods, that we create our own destiny. That what we are determines what will become of us. In a peasantlike vernacular, we all paint ourselves into corners from which here is no escape simply by being ourselves and interacting with other selves.”
“Interesting.”
“Well. Yes. There is god of sorts, Croaker. Do you know? Not a mover and shaker, though. Simply a negator. An ender of tales. He has a hunger that cannot be sated. The universe itself will slide down his maw.”
“Death?”
“I do not want to die, Croaker. All that I am shrieks against the unrighteousness of death. All that I am, was, and probably will be, is shaped by my passion to evade the end of me.” She laughed quietly, but there was a thread of hysteria there. She gestured, indicating the shadowed killing ground below. “I would have built a world in which I was safe. And the cornerstone of my citadel would have been death.”
The end of the dream was drawing close. I could not imagine a world without me in it, either. And the inner me was outraged. Is outraged. I have no trouble imagining someone becoming obsessed with escaping death.
“I understand.”

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Glen Cook książka The White Rose

“Maybe. We’re all equals at the dark gate, no? The sands run for us all. Life is but a flicker shouting into the jaws of eternity. But it seems so damned unfair!”
Źródło: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 39, “A Guest at Charm” (p. 625)

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