Michael Shea Quotes

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Even the littlest minds, sunk in petty pride of self, are susceptible to chords struck on the cosmic scale.
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Michael Shea (Demiurge: The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales of Michael Shea)
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Good villains think what they are doing is right. Great villains actually are right.
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Michael E. Shea (The Lazy Dungeon Master)
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Memories must somehow be represented physically in the brain. Brain chemistry and structure is altered by experience and the stability of these physicochemical changes presumably corresponds to the retention duration of memory.
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Michael O'Shea (The Brain: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions))
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The complexity of the resulting signalling network in the brain is almost unimaginable: one hundred billion neurons each with one thousand synapses, producing a machine with one hundred trillion interconnections! If you started to count them at one per second you would still be counting 30 million years from now!
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Michael O'Shea (The Brain: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions))
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It had been a windy night, that night where his life had taken its turning. The atmosphere, in flood, was trying to wash the trees right off the hills. The big oaks twisted and shuddered like black flames in the moonlight, and the white grass rippled and bannered. The wind that night made him feel his chronic longing. The wind, trying to stampede the trees, was roaring for a grand, universal departure to another solar system, a better deal, and the grass struggled to join the rootless giant of the air. All that lives strives to fly, to master time. All tribes of beings strain to rise in insurrection, all knowing their time is short, all, when the wind blows, wanting to climb aboard. ("The Growlimb")
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Michael Shea (Best New Horror 16 (The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #16))
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Up before sunrise. Marjorie hated getting out of bed in the dark, but loved the payoff once she was dressed and rolling down the country roads in the first light, cruising and owning them almost alone. The countryside here used to be a lot more interesting, though. She remembered it in her girlhood - orchards, small ranches, farmhouses, each one of these houses a distinct personality... Money, she thought wryly, scanning the endless miles of grapevines, all identically wired and braced and drip-lined, mile after mile - money was such a powerful organizer. As the dawn light gained strength, and bathed the endless vines in tarnished silver, it struck her that there was, after all, something scary about money, that it could run loose in the world like a mythic monster, gobbling up houses and trees, serving strictly its own monstrous appetite. ("The Growlimb")
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Michael Shea (Best New Horror 16 (The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #16))
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feels productive might not be. You might spend a good deal of time designing a monster or a scene or an encounter area only to have it fall apart when your players come to the table. Sometimes all the preparation in the world won’t result in a better game for your group. As an example, according to Michael Mallen, writer of the Id DM blog, the worst session he ever ran was the one for which he felt most prepared
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Michael Shea (The Lazy Dungeon Master)
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The signals stretched out of sight ahead, like a python with scales of red and green, their radiance haloed in a light fog that was drifting in off the Bay. And people were out, little knots of them near the corners. They formed isolated clots of gaudy life, like tidepools, all of them dressed in baggy clothes of bright-colored nylon, paneled and logo-ed with surreal pastels under the emerald-and-ruby signal glare. And as they stood and talked together, they moved in a way both fitful and languid, like sealife bannering in a restless sea.
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Michael Shea (Demiurge: The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales of Michael Shea)
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The bright languid people on the corners threw laughter at them now, a shout or two, and it seemed as if the whole great submarine python stirred to quicker currents. Ricky felt a ripple of hallucination and saw here, for just a moment, a vast inked mural, the ink not dry, themselves and all around them still half-liquid entities billowing in an aqueous universe …
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Michael Shea (Demiurge: The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales of Michael Shea)
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Good creative works come from what's eliminated, not what's added.
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Michael E. Shea (The Lazy Dungeon Master)
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Michael E. Shea (Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master: Get more from your D&D games by preparing less)
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Saturday evening heralded the return of my fairy swat team. One of them actually knocked out Michaelβ€”my older brother who was home from college for the weekendβ€”because he didn’t recognize him. Thankfully Michael woke up just fine after we dragged his carcass to his room. He thought he passed out in his room due to exhaustion.
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K.M. Shea (Goblins Wear Suits (The Magical Beings' Rehabilitation Center, #2))
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When Indiana Jones shoots the huge sword fighter in Raiders of the Lost Ark, it became one of the most iconic duels ever primarily because the outcome was totally unexpected. It broke the rules. It wasn’t fair. And we loved it because of that.
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Michael Shea (Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master: Get more from your D&D games by preparing less)