"Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, the French."

-- Will Shetterly

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“I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.”
“A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.”
“Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.”
“Only sick music makes money today.”
“I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.”
“The curse of death for disobedience has been silenced because, for believers, there is no longer any Law we have to obey to merit life. The Law has been silenced, but it can only be silenced when it is has been perfectly fulfilledâ€”when it has been completed. And thatâ€™s just what Jesus did.”
“Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done ...”

Source : Josephine Lawrence (1944). “A tower of steel”
“I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.”

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