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I studied what interested me and so I had to become a writer because my education had left me unsuited for a decent well-paying job.

— Elizabeth Hand

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There's always a moment when everything changes.

Generation Loss (2007)

He even taught himself to play the viole de gambols, a true sign of a man with too much time on his hands.

Wylding Hall (2015)

Truth is, often Lesley got the fuzzy end of the lollypop.

Wylding Hall (2015)

Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that's one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore.

Elizabeth Hand on Mortal Love at HarperCollins (2004)

I never mentioned it to anyone. No one else ever spoke of seeing it.

Generation Loss (2007)

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You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Friedrich Schiller On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

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