Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.
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Letter to the Rev. John Johnson, (29 September1793).William Cowper
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The Devourers want not only the patronage of all beings in all universes, but—doubtless because they are afraid someone will some day raise the ever-unpleasant question of the true worth of things—they want all their customers reduced to a state of slavish and submissive suggestibility, so that they are fit for nothing whatever but to gawk at and buy the trash the Devourers offer for sale.
Fritz Leiber
Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future.
Eckhart Tolle
The Devourers are the most accomplished merchants in all the many universes - so accomplished, indeed, that they sell only trash. There is a deep necessity in this, for the Devourers must occupy all their cunning in perfecting their methods of selling and so have not an instant to spare in considering the worth of what they sell.
Fritz Leiber
If you have any doubt that time is relative, try stretching fifteen minutes' worth of input of over four hours cubicle-cell time with an ultra-slow internet connection and frequent visits from supervisors.
Rob Payne
The Devourers want to brood about their great service to the many universes—it is their claim that servile customers make the most obedient subjects for the gods.
Fritz Leiber
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