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“How easily you men forget, even when you tell yourselves you are ‘in love,’ whatever idiocy that phrase may convey to your superstitious and romantic little mind!”

— Andrew J. Offutt Ardor on Aros (1973)

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To call her a strange woman would be to say that Einstein was a bright fellow.

Ardor on Aros (1973)

In a “barbarian” society (or in any society, in wartime), the conquerors naturally rape ever woman in sight. Not even the stern old lonely god of the children of Abraham frowned on that practice!

Ardor on Aros (1973)

He’d heard it said: Nature was the original and greatest sorcerer or sorceress of all.

I always thought Man might have grown up if Freud and Darwin and Havelock Ellis had lived before Napoleon and Watt and Marco Polo. And the schlemiel who invented gunpowder.

Ardor on Aros (1973)

I’d have been better off of course, just to have gone along, to have accepted. But as I have pointed out I am not built that way. I kept asking why.

Ardor on Aros (1973)

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