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Horn could hear the click of the dice that made up the multiverse. Beneath the struggles of gods and men and monsters, behind the powers of magic and prayer and bared blade, chance governed all.

— Jay Lake The Decaying Mansions of Memory (2011)

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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.

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With age comes wisdom. Or at least experience.

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