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I've tried it with men and women and boys and girls, in the dark and in the desert sun, with people I cared for and people I didn't give a damn about, and I have never understood the pleasure in it. The best it's ever been for me is not uncomfortable.

— Spider Robinson God Is An Iron (1977)

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Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy.

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

God is an Iron (1977)

As Bob Dylan forgot to say, "To live outside the law, you must be lucky."

Callahan's Key (2000)

Terror leaves you when you despair; once you let yourself hope again it returns redoubled.

Callahan's Lady (1989)

As the poet tells us: once a king, always a king—but once a night is often sufficient.

Callahan's Lady (1989)

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