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You haven’t changed for hundreds of years, and your sins, such as they are, have not grown in complexity. A moment of yes in a lifetime of thou shalt not. Certain punishment out of a steaming Protestant imagination.

— 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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