Possible "pull quotes" for upcoming Superiors books

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Belial
"Sometimes it's better to light a flamethower than curse the darkness."
--Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

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Malphas
"I gave them a sword, and they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess, if I had been in their position, I would have done the same thing."
--Richard M. Nixon

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Beleth and Blandine

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned."
- William Congreve, The Mourning Bride

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Magog

"They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound,
But I am still around ..."
-- Jimmy Webb, Highwayman

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Christopher

Those whom the gods love grow young.
- Oscar Wilde, A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated

The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.
- L. Frank Baum, in the introduction to The Lost Princess of Oz

And, afterward, when a child was naughty or disobedient, its mother would say: "You must pray to the good Santa Claus for forgiveness. He does not like naughty children, and, unless you repent, he will bring you no more pretty toys." But Santa Claus himself would not have approved this speech. He brought toys to the children because they were little and helpless, and because he loved them. He knew that the best of children were sometimes naughty, and that the naughty ones were often good. It is the way with children, the world over, and he would not have changed their natures had he possessed the power to do so.
- L. Frank Baum, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

"In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child," says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.
- L. Frank Baum, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property.
- Frank Zappa, on The Howard Stern Show (1987)

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the Archangel of Song

Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
- Oscar Wilde, Personal Impressions of America (Leadville)

Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood.
- Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose

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Oannes
"The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite."
--Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

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Marc

Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you. If only you could realise that, you would not want to be rich. Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot.
- Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
-Frank Zappa, Zen Masters : The Wisdom of Frank Zappa

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Janus

The road out would be treacherous, and I didn’t know where it would lead but I followed it anyway. It was a strange world ahead that would unfold, a thunderhead of a world with jagged lightning edges. Many got it wrong and never did get it right. I went straight into it. It was wide open.
- Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Vol. One

I was born very far from where I’m supposed to be, and so, I’m on my way home, you know?
- Bob Dylan, No Direction Home

You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows
- Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde, "The Relation of Dress to Art," The Pall Mall Gazette (February 28, 1885)

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community, and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation.
- Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism



Jean

There is no sin except stupidity.
- Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde, A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
- Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
- Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
- Oscar Wilde, Phrases and Philosophies for the use of the Young
(Jean and religion)


Novalis

We hold each other’s lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.
- Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

I'd throw all the guns and the tanks in the sea,
for they are mistakes of a past history.
- Bob Dylan, Let me Die in my Footsteps


the Archangel of Death

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
- Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

One can survive everything nowadays except death.
- Oscar Wilde, Oscariana

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Janus

“Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.”
--Lloyd Alexander, The Arkadians