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Orpheus' mistake wasn't that he turned and looked back towards Eurydice and Hell, but that he ever thought he could escape. Same with Lot's wife. Averting our eyes does not change the fact that we are marked.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan Houses Under the Sea (2007)

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I sense that many readers want nothing more complex or challenging than wind-up toys. It's dispiriting.

Magick may be no more than the willful invocation of awe.

A good writing day is a day when one has written well, and the word counts be damned. Finishing is not the goal. Doing the job well is the goal.

Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.

If there must be resolution and explanation, it must be something worth its weight in mystery. Most times, I'd be content with the mystery.

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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