“The idea of sin and retribution is just an attempt to hide behind the shield of superstition. You are trying to find rational causes where there aren’t any.”

—  George Alec Effinger

Source: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 11 (p. 166).

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Novelist, short story writer 1947–2002

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