"A man is a phoenix, who must be reborn from his own ashes, for there is no other like him in the universe. If the wind stirs the ashes into a clumsy parody, then the phoenix is dead forever. Nothing we know of can bring you back."
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Algis Budrys
Algis Budrys (January 9, 1931 ā June 9, 2008) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic.
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