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The winter of ignorance could come, the cold stoked by a thousand bonfires. There would always be loveless souls ready to kindle such blazes with their neighbors’ books, or dreams, or children.

— Esther Friesner Hooray for Hellywood (1990)

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Like all grandmothers, she wouldn’t mind if the world ended so long as everyone cleaned his plate first.

Sphynxes Wild (1989)

Whoever you are, you’re too weird even for New York, and that’s saying something.

New York by Knight (1986)

Dignity and self-assurance are everything to a woman, especially a naked one.

Harlot's Ruse (1986)

There is a vast difference between innocence and stupidity.

Harlot's Ruse (1986)

Fools are always at the bottom of the food chain.

Elf Defense (1988)

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

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

Bertrand Russell

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