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He’d volunteered for the Howard Institute program because of the most basic human motivation—tourism. Seeing what was over the next hill had trumped even sex as the driving force in human evolution.

— Jay Lake Last Plane to Heaven (2014)

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Life is too short and hard and strange not to blame God for what He done made of the world.

Art unexamined is, after all, art unexperienced.

Last Plane to Heaven (2014)

With age comes wisdom. Or at least experience.

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Magic, the blessed curse that gnaws at the soul and leaves a void in the mind into which too much that is alien and deadly can settle.

The Decaying Mansions of Memory (2011)

Springfield McKenna didn’t place much faith in rumors. She’d traded in them far too long to lend credence to someone else’s social munitions.

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