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“Don’t you see?”
They did not see. This is the way things were done. Things were done this way. Things weren’t done another way. You did things the way you did things. You didn’t do things the way you didn’t do things.

— Avram Davidson Rork! (1965)

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But the Red Man denied that time, though it must always be paid for, could always be paid for in money.

The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969)

I can tell you that only a fool destroys useful things merely because he doesn’t like them.

Masters of the Maze (1965)

Experience may be a bitter teacher, but She is a good one.

Masters of the Maze (1965)

In life, if not in literature, there is always anticlimax.

Sleep Well of Nights (1978)

Rumor, I fear, is scarcely as accurate as he is rapid.

The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969)

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