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Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried.

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What have I always told you about Soldiers? The bigger the gripe, the smaller the cause! It is infallible!

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What was life worth, anyway, if you had to sit around remembering not to mention this, that, and the other thing because someone else might be upset?

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There are vampires and vampires, and not all of them suck blood.

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Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.

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The Devourers want not only the patronage of all beings in all universes, but — doubtless because they are afraid someone will some day raise the ever-unpleasant question of the true worth of things — they want all their customers reduced to a state of slavish and submissive suggestibility, so that they are fit for nothing whatever but to gawk at and buy the trash the Devourers offer for sale.

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The greater the variety of intelligent life Don saw, the more he became sensitive to its presence.

Fritz Leiber

Fritz Leiber

Fritz Leiber

Born: December 24, 1910

Died: September 5, 1992 (aged 81)

Bio: Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theater and films, playwright and chess expert. With writers such as Robert E.

Known for:

Swords and Deviltry (1970)
The Swords of Lankhmar (1968)
The Big Time (1958)
Swords Against Death (1970)
Swords in the Mist (1968)

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