“Much as I hate to admit it, humanity will get along perfectly well without me. Any species that could invent the twentieth century entirely on its own doesn’t need a Prince of Darkness.”

—  James K. Morrow

Source: Blameless in Abaddon (1996), Chapter 15 (p. 402; spoken by the Devil)

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