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The Black Company

The Black Company is a series of dark fantasy books written by American author Glen Cook. The series combines elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy as it follows an elite mercenary unit, The Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately four-hundred-year history.


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“I went back to staring tomorrow in the face. Better than looking backward. But tomorrow refused to shed its mask.”

Source: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 1, “Legate” (p. 34)

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

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

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

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

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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)

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