“It was funny, though, how the human mind would cast doubt even on itself in order to explain away unusual and unconventional things it had seen vividly and unmistakably. It left you in the middle, the human mind did.”

—  Fritz Leiber , book Our Lady of Darkness

Source: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 15 (p. 83)

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American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction 1910–1992

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