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I am going into a far country, from which I shall never return. They say that when we depart thence, when we walk the last long road, if we are brave and true and avoid all the perils, we come to paradise, and sit there listening to The Musician play beautiful songs for all of eternity. But this is uncertain, for no witness has ever come back to report it.

— Darrell Schweitzer The Shattered Goddess (1983)

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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)

“What can I do without you?”
“Whatever is within you.”

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The true horror story requires a sense of evil, not in necessarily in a theological sense; but the menaces must be truly menacing, life-destroying, and antithetical to happiness.

This place was not divine. It was enchanted, which was a different thing altogether.

We Are All Legends (1981)

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