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We’re going to have a murder. Audiences like a little violence with their sex and music.

— Mike Resnick Eros at Nadir (1986)

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Man sells his soul to the devil, he spends the rest of his life trying to stockpile enough money to buy it back.

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The second you attain power, you become what you’ve been fighting against.

Santiago: a Myth of the Far Future (1986)

Corruption is like a disease; it tends to spread to everyone who comes into contact with it.

Eros Ascending (1984)

Nobody reaches a position of authority without the ability to be a back-stabbing bastard when the chips are down.

Sideshow (1982)

It’s my observation that God usually favors the side with the best weapons.

Purgatory (1993)

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

Eduard Hanslick

Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

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