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war ambition mean
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few. Charles Caleb Colton
war winning games
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
war hands fog
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
war writing fighting
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
war long body
Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.
war heart character
Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart? Charles Dickens
war believe blow
I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.
war believe writing
There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet? Charles Stross
war writing spy
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.
historical-novels cloaks fluttering
I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks. Jeanette Winterson
historical-novels giving perspective
The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves. Mary Pope Osborne
historical-novels venture modern
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones. Lion Feuchtwanger
historical-novels london spheres
Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its description of London. Elizabeth Redfern has made an exciting debut. Martha Grimes
historical-novels stories wells
I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well. Matthew Tobin Anderson
historical-novels hands law
[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.' Robert Anton Wilson
gone certain rings
To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?
gone
Your spikes have gone floppy, Darren Shan
gone tweet pretending
I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why. David Sedaris
gone towns big-families
It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry. Cesar Romero
gone path reputation
Why sully the country's reputation when they've gone down this path only to back off at the end? James Fenkner
gone philosophy poet poets saturday sleeping window
Where is Philosophy sleeping this saturday afternoon? Are the philosophers already dead? Are the poets gone from the planet? I look through the window and all I see are advertisments.
gone teammates ups
When you've been teammates that long, you're going to go through some ups and downs. They've gone through some down times. Tim Purpura
gone thank
Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it. Logan Pearsall Smith
gone feels left
I feel it gone, yet know not when it left. William Shakespeare