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She had majored in Philosophy at Vassar. It wasn’t the sort of thing one got over easily.

— Esther Friesner New York by Knight (1986)

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Like all grandmothers, she wouldn’t mind if the world ended so long as everyone cleaned his plate first.

Sphynxes Wild (1989)

Whoever you are, you’re too weird even for New York, and that’s saying something.

New York by Knight (1986)

Dignity and self-assurance are everything to a woman, especially a naked one.

Harlot's Ruse (1986)

There is a vast difference between innocence and stupidity.

Harlot's Ruse (1986)

Fools are always at the bottom of the food chain.

Elf Defense (1988)

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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