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“Things oughtn’t to be the way they are, altogether. But letting a madman burn down the barn is no way to improve them.”

Avram Davidson

Source: Rogue Dragon (1965), Chapter V (p. 49)

Way

““How is your new woman? Your new-est one, I sh’d say.”
Jack shrugged. “Good enough. They all got the same thing.”
“Yeh-es,” Jeff nodded, judiciously. “But some of ’m’s got more of it than others.””

Avram Davidson book Masters of the Maze

Source: Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 1 (p. 16)

“The beast is always doomed. It’s better to face the fact honestly and not pretty it up with a lot of lies about blowing off steam and reducing tensions and getting rid of this and that, acting out anxieties, moment of truth. Piddle. There’s an ancient word, I don’t know what language it is. Bazazz. All those arguments are a lot of bazazz. Unless you’re wiping out vermin or hunting for meat to eat, the man who kills animals does so because he likes to kill. And people who like to watch do so because they like to see things being killed.”

Avram Davidson

Source: Rogue Dragon (1965), Chapter XI (p. 137)

People , Truth , Animals

“I can tell you that only a fool destroys useful things merely because he doesn’t like them.”

Avram Davidson book Masters of the Maze

Source: Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 8 (p. 108)

Fools

“It is not a very interesting night market, anyway. No wonderful things are sold there, though often one wonders, next day, how one could have bought them…”

Avram Davidson

Vergil in Averno (1987)

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