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“In my experience, involvement in fairy tales is unavoidable no matter who you are, no matter how many fairy tales you’ve lived through already.”
― Poison Kiss
― Poison Kiss
“Appropriately, his bird was the vulture. The dog was wronged by being chosen as his animal.”
― Mythology
― Mythology
“What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.”
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“If you boys and girls had to sweat for your toys the way a newly born baby has to struggle to live you would be happier . . . and much richer. As it is, with some of you, I pity the poverty of your wealth.”
― Starship Troopers
― Starship Troopers
“[T]hey led us through a fifteen-minute set of what I called "seven-eleven" songs. Sing seven words, and repeat the phrase eleven times.”
― Failstate
― Failstate
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