Kage Baker Quotes

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Times had changed.
Sooner or later, they always did.

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Why did I never understand...
That it was vanity? I said.
Mm, but so much worse... Delusion. Because, the thing is—human progress begins, not with one lone man with a weapon, however heroic. Nor with subtle governments, be they never so altruistic. It begins with a man and his wife in bed... and... how could I ever hope to govern humanity, without having been even that human?

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I've been in the entertainment industry ever since, in one capacity or another. It's better than the Inquisition. Usually.

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Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I've observed.

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It takes thousands of them to create an archive of human wisdom; only one to set a torch to it. Wouldn't you have to say, then, that the work of the librarians is more typical of mortal behavior than the work of the arsonist?

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Why should we obey you? Budu asked.
Because I'm, er, omnipotent, said Alec.

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You've no appreciation of high romance, that's your trouble, Lewis said, climbing in and starting the motor.
Joseph nodded somberly. Boy meets girl, girl loses boy, everybody dies. I just don't get it.

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His nation of liberty was founded on the backs of Negro slaves and at the cost of exterminating the aborigines. As far as I can tell, the Yankee's idea of freedom is his right to carry a pistol with which he may shoot strangers in the street.

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He caught his breath, absorbing the impact of the scientific discoveries, the advances in scholarship, the inevitable dwindling into insignificance of issues that had mattered more than his life. He closed his eyes, turned his face away, but he couldn't stop his understanding.
You see? said Edward. They're all happy pagans nowadays. When they take the trouble to worship at all. Enlightenment swept most of that nonsense away, and good riddance!

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That is one dark house your God lives in, man. Alec shook his head. You can keep your Age of Faith. Whyn't you find somebody to worship who isn't a shracking psychopath?

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Did you know what would happen next? Did you know and sit there like God, silent, remorseless, useless?

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Is God a cruel bastard or what, to make love so painful?

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