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“The painting was of that irritating kind which dissolves into mere blobs of color unless it can be seen as a whole. I took a step backward to get a better perspective of it, then another … With the third step, I realized I should have made contact with the wall behind me, and that I had not. I was standing instead inside the picture that had occupied the opposite wall: a dark room of ancient leather chairs and ebony tables.”
― Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw

“Life is a farce and death an arse.”
― Cameron Johnston, The Traitor God

“Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.”
― China Miéville

“Credit?” “Yes. That’s where I promise to pay later for things I want now.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, The Rose and the Thorn