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Unwise or unlucky wizards learned fast enough how much one paid for one’s mistakes. One sometimes paid more dearly for one’s successes.

— Jay Lake The Decaying Mansions of Memory (2011)

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Life is too short and hard and strange not to blame God for what He done made of the world.

Art unexamined is, after all, art unexperienced.

Last Plane to Heaven (2014)

With age comes wisdom. Or at least experience.

The Decaying Mansions of Memory (2011)

Magic, the blessed curse that gnaws at the soul and leaves a void in the mind into which too much that is alien and deadly can settle.

The Decaying Mansions of Memory (2011)

Springfield McKenna didn’t place much faith in rumors. She’d traded in them far too long to lend credence to someone else’s social munitions.

Last Plane to Heaven (2014)

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

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