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At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and…

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After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in…
Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we…
Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It…
Perception of a state is not the state.
Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be…
At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at…
I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes
SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive;…
Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.
Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.
Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been;…
Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and…

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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. — Abu Bakr
Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or… — Ezra Taft Benson
The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so… — Ezra Taft Benson
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity… — Ambrose Bierce
Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting… — Unknown Author
I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the… — Elayne Boosler
In every grave on earth's green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that seed cannot… — Unknown Author
We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been… — Adolf Hitler
Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing. — Plautus
It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about… — Pat Robertson

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