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Only fools offend me, woman, and they but once.

— C. L. Moore Jirel of Joiry (1969)

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There’s no such thing as a theatrical troupe without conflicts.

Doomsday Morning (1957)

Nothing I have ever written was given the slightest deliberation. It was there in the typewriter and it came out, a total bypassing of the brain.

And not until then did she remember how fatal it is said to be to accept a gift from a demon. Buy, or earn it, but never accept the gift.

Jirel of Joiry (1969)

When you’re young you never doubt yourself. You never wonder if you’re justified. But as a man gets older he learns to doubt. Whether he can do a thing—whether he should.

Doomsday Morning (1957)

She turned her face up to the strange stars and wondered in what direction her course lay. The sky looked blankly down upon her with its myriad meaningless eyes.

Jirel of Joiry (1969)

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