“We’ve met, and it wasn’t the highlight of my being dead.”

— Lawrence M. Schoen

Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 29, “Choice and Sacrifice” (p. 265)

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American writer and klingonist 1959

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that we’ve driven them out of their temples,
doesn’t mean at all that the gods are dead.
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