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Tiglathpileser was a human, it’s rumored. And Caligula. So were a whole host of twentieth-century tyrants. So presumably were the brain-dead idiots who turned the Earth into a treeless detention camp. Being human, I’m afraid, doesn’t automatically confer demigod status on anyone.

— Michael Bishop Cri de Coeur (1994)

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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.

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

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

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

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