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His foot always got caught in that wide, loose stirrup: his mouth.

— Michael Bishop Old Folks at Home (1978)

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Both God and man hold each other in equally beautiful contempt.

A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975)

Extinction confers on the has-been the same mythological status that imagination confers on the never-was.

No Enemy But Time (1982)

But each man who worships you sees only what he wishes to see rather than any mystery you may actually embody.

A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975)

God could hardly damn me for a coward, great cosmic exemplar of laissez-faire that he is.

A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975)

You can’t go home again, particularly if you never had one.

No Enemy But Time (1982)

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