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Some people, he thought, simply have no will to survive—they’re walking hors d’oeuvres waiting for someone who can spare the time to devour them.

— Tim Powers Dinner at Deviant's Palace (1985)

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The wages of courage is death, lad, but it’s the wages of everything else, too.

The Drawing of the Dark (1979)

“Maybe later,” he told her. “Time yet for a hundred indecisions.”

Alternate Routes (2018)

Processions of priests and religiosi have been for several days past praying for rain; but the gods are either angry, or nature is too powerful.

The Stress of Her Regard (1989)

Every ruler wants to maintain the status quo.

The Stress of Her Regard (1989)

Let us quickly be finished with the business of dying, to save the trouble of making dinner.

Declare (2001)

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