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[Lord Horror] was so unique and radical, I expected to go to prison for it. I always thought that if you wrote a truly dangerous book -- something dangerous would happen to you. Which is one reason there are so few really dangerous books around. Publishers play at promoting dangerous books, whether they're Serpent's Tail or Penguin. All you get is a book vetted by committee, never anything radically imaginative or offensive that will take your fucking head off. Ironically, I think it would do other authors a power of good if they had to account for their books by going to prison -- there are far too many bad books being published!

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Don__ you understand? It__ forbidden, Aladdin! We jinn must abide by many rules, but first among them, most important of all, we must never fall in love with a human!__e catches his breath, swallowing hard. __nd do you always follow the rules?_____ Casting my gaze skyward, I draw a deep breath, searching for words among the stars. __t__ not about that. Do you know what kind of destruction we would cause? Have you not heard the story of your own people, how their city was destroyed, how thousands died? It was not hate that sparked the war between your people and mine, Aladdin. It was love. I held hands with Roshana the Wise and called her sister, and those words set our world on fire!__here it is. My greatest shame, laid bare. The truth lies between us like broken glass. Surely now he sees what I truly am: a betrayer, a monster, an enemy. Aladdin stares at me, his face softening.__hat wasn__ your fault,_ he says. __oving someone is never wrong. And like you said, it__ not a choice. It just happens, and we__e all helpless in its power.___hat doesn__ change the fact that the consequences are disastrous. As the poets say, shake hands with a jinni, and you shake hands with death.

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Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.