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Gene Wolfe

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We can dive to the bottom of the sea and some say NASA will fly us to the stars, and I have known men to plunge into the past—or the future—and drown. But there's one place where we can't go. We can't go where we are already. We can't go home, because our minds, and our hearts, and our immortal souls are already there there.
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"Kevin Malone", New Terrors (1980), ed. Ramsey Campbell

 
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To use it is the Art.

 
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