"Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine."

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Source : Tanith Lee (1981). “Tales from the Flat Earth: The Lords of Darkness Night's Master Death's Master Delusion's Master”

Tanith Lee

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“Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.”

Source : Isaiah 10:1-4, www.biblegateway.com.
“Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.”
“Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us." If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.”
“Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.”
“Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.”
“Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it to make it useful.”
“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant general the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.”

Source : "Adventures Of a Mathematician" by Martin Gardner, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1976.
“If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.”

Source : Kathy Lette (2012). “Altar Ego”, p.309, Random House

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