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Nothing frightens a miser more than the prospect of not getting paid.
We Are All Legends (1981)
I listened to all this with the dull incomprehension of a pig in the slaughterhouse overhearing the talk of two butchers.
We Are All Legends (1981)
This place was not divine. It was enchanted, which was a different thing altogether.
We Are All Legends (1981)
“Christ and Satan!”
“Swear by whomever you like,” laughed the King. “Why not Jupiter, Thor, Mithra, and Ahura-Mazda also? It’ll do you as much good.”
We Are All Legends (1981)
I lost my faith on a foreign shore, in the shade of the conscience tree. In the shade of the conscience tree, on a foreign shore, where the sand ran wet with the blood of children.
We Are All Legends (1981)
“One more thing I will tell you, the great secret I learned through my experience.”
“What was that?”
“Never listen to idle tales. They make you mad and lead you through the bowels of a god.”
“Of course,” said one of the disciples after he had left, “it is the nature of the madness that one never heeds these warnings.”
We Are All Legends (1981)
Men called me a philosopher once, but as the years burdened me further I cared less and less for the pressing questions of astronomy and geomancy and metaphysics and the like. They had been pressing since long before I was born, and I knew they would continue to be so as long as there were two students left to argue over the difference between the real and the ideal.
We Are All Legends (1981)