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“Got no time for games,” Charity told the dog. “Hope you don’t bite.”
“Not at all. The hound yawned to his ears. But beware the owner. He thinks.”

— Parke Godwin Waiting for the Galactic Bus (1988)

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The smaller the man, the larger his power fantasies.

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Hell might be a strain, she concluded, but you couldn’t beat it for the new and different or the interesting men.

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The soul that perpetually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful.

Hell, there’s no mystery between men and women, except why some poor damn fool like me ain’t figured that out yet.

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Honor thy stereotypes, the authors of thy thinking, for without them, thou wouldst have to see.

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