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Guy Gavriel Kay is a renowned Canadian fantasy author, born on November 7, 1954. His works are celebrated for their rich imagination and profound cultural depth, enjoying great popularity among readers.

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“We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.”

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Author:Guy Gavriel Kay

“Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.”

Ifs Should Force Plans Kings Blame Woods

Book:The Wandering Fire: Book Two of the The Fionavar Tapestry

Source: The Wandering Fire: Book Two of the The Fionavar Tapestry

“My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that read, ‘If I am found with amnesia, please give me the following books to read …’ And it listed half a dozen books where he longed to recapture that first glorious sense of needing to find out ‘what happens next’ … the feeling that keeps you up half the night. The feeling that comes before the plot’s been learned.”

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Author:Guy Gavriel Kay

“We worship…the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and the half-world, and perhaps worlds beyond, than we can grasp. We always knew that. We can’t even stop children from dying, how would we presume to understand the truth of things? Behind things? Does the presence of one power deny another? [p. 176]”

Ifs World Children Doe Soul Seems Speak Behinds Half Knowing Dying Worship Deny

Book:Sailing to Sarantium: Book One of the Sarantine Mosaic

Source: Sailing to Sarantium: Book One of the Sarantine Mosaic

“There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had? But if you didn't change at least a little, where were the passages of a life? Didn't learning, changing, sometimes mean letting go of what had once been seen as true?”

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Book:Under Heaven

Source: Under Heaven

“But if you couldn't do everything, did that mean you did nothing?”

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Book:Under Heaven

Source: Under Heaven

About the Author

Born: November 7, 1954
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Quotes: 90

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Under HeavenRelated source material

The Lions of Al-RassanRelated source material

TiganaRelated source material

Sailing to SarantiumRelated source material

A Brightness Long AgoRelated source material

Written on the DarkRelated source material

The Summer Tree: Book One of the The Fionavar TapestryRelated source material

All the Seas of the WorldRelated source material

The Last Light of the SunRelated source material

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