Piers Anthony Quotes

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I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humourous, and continued from there. I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.

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Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.

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We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.

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Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!

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I realized suddenly that I was in an impossible situation, and there was really no way out. No acceptable way. I could not go on — so I stopped.

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One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

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At this slower pace the journey took a couple of days, and I fought off a few minor threats along the way —griffins, carnivorous plants, giant serpents, hostile centaurs, that sort of thing, purely routine —and I was beginning to get bored when at last the dusky towers of Castle Roogna hove into view.

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Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.

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I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.

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If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?

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Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

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She looked around. "Oh, I've just got to hug somebody! You!" And she hugged Puck, the little ghost horse. "And you." She hugged Pook, and Peek, and even the nose of the moat monster. "But not you," she decided, encountering the zombie.

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Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.

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For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.

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I retaliated by visiting on them all manner of mischief, but I concluded, after some centuries of chronic relapsing on their part, that rage and punishment was not the best way to hold a clientele. It is only the most primitive of mortals who is swayed by that sort of thing.

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That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

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When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

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Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water.

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Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child.

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But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.

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