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“Truth may often be the first casualty of war, but dignity is definitely the first casualty of disease.”
― One Word Kill
― One Word Kill
“It is rather as if some strange spirit had taken on the guise of an elderly professor. The body may be pacing this shabby little suburban room, but the mind is far away, roaming the plains and mountains of Middle-Earth.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
― J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
“There is no design. The universe isn’t kind or cruel. The universe is vast and indifferent to our desires.”
― The Gone World
― The Gone World
“That’s the common thread running through all the diverse hordes of nerds and geeks who turned up to the conventions and gatherings, who queued outside Games Workshop for the latest rulebook. We were all of us consumed by our own imagination, victims of it, haunted by impossibles, set alight by our own visions, and by other people’s. We weren’t the flamboyant artsy creatives, the darlings who would walk the boards beneath the hot eye of the spotlight, or dance, or paint, or even write novels. We were a tribe who had always felt as if we were locked into a box that we couldn’t see. And when D&D came along, suddenly we saw both the box and the key.”
― One Word Kill
― One Word Kill
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