"It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world."
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"...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them."
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"THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining."
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"I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin."
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"There are, occasionally, writers who are able to combine both story and style. They are, of course, the best. You get a spectacular view and you also get to look at it from the backseat of a chauffeur-driven Cadillac. In the field of fantasy, those writers able to combine story-as-narration with story-as-style are even rarer. But there are a few...the late Theodore Sturgeon, the early Ray Bradbury...and Richard Christian Matheson. A brilliant chip off the old block."
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"A broken spoon may be a fork in disguise."
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"...belief has a second edge. If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one - probably a child - who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood; the mind is the mallet which drives it home."
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"Money can't buy off the lightning."
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"Some things it don't pay to be curious about."
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"I believe there is an unseen world all around us."
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"Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking."
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"It's up to men to build things ... it's up to God to blow them down."
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"Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff."
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"Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills."
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"Life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious."
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"Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature."
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"Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it."
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"Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness."
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"When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed."
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"We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed."
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