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From Quotes by Guy Gavriel Kay
- It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
- One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.
- My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that…
- We worship…the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and the…
- She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others,…
- Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex…
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