Star-watching: at night the stars of Alastor Cluster blaze in profusion. The atmosphere refracts their light; the sky quivers with beams, glitters, and errant flashes. The Trills go out into their gardens with jugs of wine; they name the stars and discusses localities. For the Trills, for almost anyone of Alastor, the night sky was no abstract empyrean, but rather a view across prodigious distances to known places: a vast luminous map. . Jack Vance
How can you be one of the stars of heaven, when the stars are innumerable? What star number do you have?
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Sorin Cerin
Witches are naturally nosy, ” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet again. I will give you some free advice, though.”“ Will it cost me anything?”“ What? I just said it was free! ” said Miss Tick.“Yes, but...
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Terry Pratchett
His words were full of hope and threat. Like the stars.
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James S.A. Corey
My thoughts are stars i cannot fathom into constellations
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John Green
Why do I go outside at one a.m.and search the stars as though I'd numbered them?
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Gail White
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If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for...
Good music always defeats bad luck.
I understand the gist of your speculation, ' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.
I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!
One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.
