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I get depressed with these fluffy dragons and noble elves. Elves were never noble. They were cruel bastards. And I dislike heroes. You can’t trust the...more

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Heroes get kingdoms and princesses, and they take regular exercise, and when they smile the light glints off their teeth, ting

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Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

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Supposing an emperor was persuaded to wear a new suit of clothes whose material was so fine that, to the common eye, the clothes weren't there. And su...more

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There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the...more

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But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding ...more

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No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

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The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdo...more

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To animals they were just the weather, just part of everything. But humans arose and gave them names, just as people filled the starry sky with heroes...more

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Stories don't care who takes part in them. All that matters if that the story gets told, that the story repeats. Or, if you prefer to think of it like...more

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People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

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Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But if you ...more