The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's … - Fritz Leiber

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The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of material reality.

Fritz Leiber

The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they were devils.

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Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.

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The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian and Jungian psychiatry, beyond the dubious psi-realms of Dr. Rhine, beyond the areas policed by the commissars and priests and motivations-research men, far, far beyond the mad, beat, half-hysterical laughter. . . the utterly unknown still is and the eerie and ghostly lurk, as much wrapped in mystery as ever.

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I abominate any organization that denies cats are people!

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The result is. . . that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.

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Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other.

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