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Any brute will demand his right to be a law unto himself, beating his wife and his children as he pleases, and defend that right with his father’s rifle and think himself a patriot.

— Kage Baker Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)

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True believers aren’t real receptive to the idea that what they’re telling you is just mythology.

Sky Coyote (1999)

Has there ever been a revolution that produced something better than what it overthrew? The only thing people learn from being oppressed is how to oppress others!

Sky Coyote (1999)

Mortals might have been contemptible, true, but not evil entirely.

In the Garden of Iden (1997)

Is God a cruel bastard or what, to make love so painful?

The Graveyard Game (2001)

When you laugh at something, you don’t fear it anymore.

Sky Coyote (1999)

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