As Marlowe, Milton, Goethe, and every other writer who has meddled with the Devil has discovered, the chief difficulty is to prevent this sympathetic character from becoming the hero of the story.
Dorothy L. Sayers, in the foreword to The Devil To Pay (via smokeandsong)
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