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• Color is like an orchestra playing behind a singer too loud." -- Will Eisne
• Well now on a summer night, in a dusky room Come a little piece of the Lord's undying light Crying like he swallowed the fiery moon In his mother's arms.
  ... In a world so hard and dirty, so fouled and confused Searching for a little bit of God's mercy I found living proof....
• MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.
  As in Rome Christians were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in Otumwee, the most ancient and famous city of the world, female heretics were thrown to the mice....
• The study of history places too much emphasis on individuals.
  The most significant events and trends in history were made possible not by the famous few, but by groups of people whose identities have long been forgotten....
• Mythology, n.: The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...