“‘ Win or lose, we achieve nothing in the world that we understand […]’‘ But then the world does not matter.’‘ Indeed it does not […] It is good to understand that.’”

Source: Drenai series, Quest for Lost Heroes, Ch. 10

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British author of heroic fantasy 1948–2006

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