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Life was never so clear-cut as to offer anything as certain as a war between Heaven and Hell. That was for stories.

— Jeffrey Ford The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories (2002)

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He kneels and prays to heaven but nothing happens.

The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories (2002)

Nothing is more comforting to people than to have their certainties trumpeted back to them in bold, clear typeface.

The Empire of Ice Cream (2006)

You are no more nor less than any man—a hungry heart and a wavering will.

Crackpot Palace (2012)

They’ve told so many lies in their lives that they’ve run out and can now tell only the truth.

Crackpot Palace (2012)

What good is the illusion of fiction if it cannot show us a way to become the people we need to be?

The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories (2002)

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Cary Grant Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)

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