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“We'd rather have satisfaction and the maximum titillation than real information, and so history, I insist to my good friend Steve Welch, isn't a cold sequential list of facts, it's a prize anthology of the best fiction.”
― Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir
― Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir
“Fate is often like a canoe after you've lost your paddles.”
― Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir
― Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir
“Do you remember where the glory in Beowulf is?" I asked him. "It is out amid peril in strange lands pitted against monsters and the mothers of monsters. It isn't in the warm mead hall with roasted meats and the comfort of jesters and wenches.”
― Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir
― Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir
“I don’t go to church, but I regularly attend the Museum of Natural History.”
― The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad
― The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad
“Indeed factual stories are so cumbersome, ambiguous, unexciting, and difficult to understand most of the time that they are almost always instantly reconstructed and condensed for better emotional digestion into folktales with foreign villains and blue-eyed saviors.”
― Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir
― Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir
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