“Small towns were terrible places to grow up with world-sized dreams—especially when those dreams were the only things you had left to hold onto.”

—  Robert Lynn Asprin

Source: Time Scout (1995), Chapter 2 (p. 38)

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American science fiction and fantasy author 1946–2008

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