"He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink."
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"But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]"
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"The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak."
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"The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every" possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not, and in yet others both of us exist."
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"This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility."
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"Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope."
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"Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture."
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"the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery."
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