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Men called me a philosopher once, but as the years burdened me further I cared less and less for the pressing questions of astronomy and geomancy and metaphysics and the like. They had been pressing since long before I was born, and I knew they would continue to be so as long as there were two students left to argue over the difference between the real and the ideal.

— Darrell Schweitzer We Are All Legends (1981)

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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.

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“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.

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