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“It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space...”
“Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, ...”
“Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had be...”
“Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?”
“The souls of heroes are forged by the gods and tempered with the pain of life.”
“Souls are simply aspects of ego splintered off from Mae and Jin, the two original gods. They began with no ego at all, you know. But as they gained awareness of themselves, each affirmation of some...”
“My soul is the gods; my heart is yours.Leiard smileda sly, secretive smile. It was an expression she had never seen him wear before. Was this just her mind embellishing the mood she sensed from him...”
“Reciting from rote seems a terrible way to honor the gods and a precise killing of the power of the words.”
“Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have powers anymore. In my time I've seen theatre gods, gladiator gods, even storytelle...”
“Only the gods have many destinies and need never die. They are filled with everything and experience everything. Everything - except human happiness. That they can never know and therefore they gru...”
“As a breath on glass, -As witch-fires that burn,The gods and monsters pass,Are dust, and return.(The Face of the Skies)”
“They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.”
“But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes t...”
“It is an arrogant man that thinks himself a god.And an arrogant god, thought Tieren, looking to the window, that thinks himself a man.”
“[Technology] has taught us how to become gods before we have learned to be men.”
“Master of magic, god of war, Odin wanders alone.”
“Bad leather, Viking gods should be naked.”
“Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.”
“Writer is always alone. But every author is a creator, and gods are lonely.”
“You know, he said. I think I would rather be a man than a god. We dont need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. Its what we do. There was silence, in the high place.”
