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“One more thing I will tell you, the great secret I learned through my experience.”
“What was that?”
“Never listen to idle tales. They make you mad and lead you through the bowels of a god.”
“Of course,” said one of the disciples after he had left, “it is the nature of the madness that one never heeds these warnings.”

— Darrell Schweitzer We Are All Legends (1981)

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Nothing frightens a miser more than the prospect of not getting paid.

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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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This place was not divine. It was enchanted, which was a different thing altogether.

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