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Magic is the fifth fundamental force and is even more mysterious than gravity, which is really saying something.

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Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all ...more

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Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and m...more

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Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an a...more

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the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

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Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government when it suspends the free press, try...more

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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

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Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

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Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered each other at Haworth House in ...more

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Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix.

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But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping th...more

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magic swirls about us like an invisible fog of energy that can be tapped by those gifted enough, using a variety of techniques that center on layered ...more

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I liked him, but since his particular field of interest was Remote Suggestion--the skill of projecting thoughts into people's heads from a distance--I...more

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After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors ...more

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Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd,...more