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The wages of courage is death, lad, but it’s the wages of everything else, too.

— Tim Powers The Drawing of the Dark (1979)

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Some people, he thought, simply have no will to survive—they’re walking hors d’oeuvres waiting for someone who can spare the time to devour them.

Dinner at Deviant's Palace (1985)

“Maybe later,” he told her. “Time yet for a hundred indecisions.”

Alternate Routes (2018)

Processions of priests and religiosi have been for several days past praying for rain; but the gods are either angry, or nature is too powerful.

The Stress of Her Regard (1989)

Every ruler wants to maintain the status quo.

The Stress of Her Regard (1989)

Let us quickly be finished with the business of dying, to save the trouble of making dinner.

Declare (2001)

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1599)

All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

Sanu Sharma

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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