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For a moment the forest seemed a deep green sea, storm-tossed and heaving, eternal and unknowable.

— George R. R. Martin

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Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the crudest is the one called love.

Meathouse Man (1976)

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

The real difference, to my mind, is between romantic fiction, which all these genres are a part of, and mimetic fiction, or naturalistic fiction.

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

This is a night for song and sin and drink, for come the morrow, the virtuous and the vile burn together.

Fire & Blood (2018)

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