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David Fincher: Mind Games: A Critical Survey of the Filmmaker

by Adam Nayman

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“Never trust a man who brings a hundred soldiers to a wedding”
― Sebastien de Castell, Tyrant's Throne

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“What is the lasting damage when you believe the warm spot you were just sleeping in will be your grave?”
― Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

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“Expectations are a funny thing,” Wen said. “When you’re born with them, you resent them, fight against them. When you’ve never been given any, you feel the lack of them your whole life.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade City

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“You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: deity, gods, greek-mythology, immortality, mythology, pain

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“I shall stay and tell my tale, hope that it may serve some purpose, that eyes shall see it and learn, that the future will not repeat the mistakes of the past. That is my prayer, but what use is prayer to a god that has abandoned all things . . .”
― John Gwynne, Malice

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The Legendarium Podcast — 78 members — last activity Aug 27, 2020 10:00AM
We're very fortunate, and we know it. Since we began broadcasting in early 2014, the Legendarium Podcast has grown from two guys talking about the Lor ...more

Realmwalker Publishing Group — 213 members — last activity Sep 29, 2015 11:11AM
Realmwalker Publishing Group books, authors and events

The Cool Kids' Fantasy Club — 1806 members — last activity Jun 13, 2026 09:13AM
A group to chat about SFF books. Authors and readers welcome. I might post about my books and the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off too. I plan on maki ...more

The Banished Lands and The Bloodsworn — 1448 members — last activity Jun 06, 2026 01:58PM
A group to discuss all books written within The Faithful and the Fallen and Of Blood and Bone, as well as The Bloodsworn, by John Gwynne. We will disc ...more