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Then he was running not so much away from the cold and its crippling, supernatural horrors, as toward civilization, which was once again a bright emblem in his brain, an answer to all small-mindedness.

— Fritz Leiber Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

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And the mighty are great worriers and spend much time preventing anything that troubles their peace of mind.

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I thought of how people are like planets—lonely little forts of mind with immense black distance barring them off from each other.

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Women have power over men almost as great as gods do.

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To Space-Age man, every mystery is a greed-magnet.

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Too much good luck was always dangerous.

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