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A Spell for Chameleon

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Bearing an Hourglass

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Centaur Aisle

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A Spell for Chameleon

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Bearing an Hourglass

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Centaur Aisle

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Famous Piers Anthony Quotes

“Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.”

Piers Anthony Castle Roogna

Source: Castle Roogna

“One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.”

Piers Anthony book A Spell for Chameleon

Source: A Spell for Chameleon

“For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.”

Piers Anthony

Source: Crewel Lye

“Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.”

Piers Anthony Bearing an Hourglass

Source: Bearing an Hourglass

“Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child.”

Piers Anthony book Centaur Aisle

Source: Centaur Aisle

“I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.”

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Piers Anthony Quotes

“When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.”

Piers Anthony Golem in the Gears

Source: Golem in the Gears

“Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.”

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“But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.”

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Source: Crewel Lye

“I retaliated by visiting on them all manner of mischief, but I concluded, after some centuries of chronic relapsing on their part, that rage and punishment was not the best way to hold a clientele. It is only the most primitive of mortals who is swayed by that sort of thing.”

Piers Anthony book For Love of Evil

JHVH speaking to Satan, about humans, after their worship of the Golden Calf
For Love of Evil (1988)

“I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humourous, and continued from there. I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.”

Piers Anthony

As quoted in 100 Most Popular Genre Fiction Authors (2005) by Bernard Alger Drew, p. 11

“I realized suddenly that I was in an impossible situation, and there was really no way out. No acceptable way. I could not go on — so I stopped.”

Piers Anthony

Alice, on her suicide
Ghost (1986)

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