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1 " Occasionally I glanced at the big blue cradle of civilization hanging in the sky, remembered for the fiftieth or sixtieth or one hundredth time that none of this had any right to be happening, and reminded myself for the fiftieth or sixtieth or one hundredth time that the only sane response was to continue carrying the tune. "
― , Alien Contact
2 " Another annoying thing about frontiers: when they’re not frontiers anymore, the civilizations that move in like to think that the people who came first were stupid. "
3 " you’re not a geologist, so how could you be expected to recognize a rock? "
4 " What humans always study,” said Hesper. “Humans. "
5 " when the form of a practical object was less utilitarian than it might be, then it was art. "
6 " Art arises from the inability to communicate. Art is the imperfect symbol. Isn’t it? "
7 " like a samurai Jackson Pollock, I scream through my mask and thrash the disgusting little buggers into tinier flying sky-serpents that merrily decorate me, and the canvas on the walls. "
8 " Bowling is sex. Bowling is a symbolic form of intercourse, except you don’t have to bother about the feelings of some other person. Bowling is sex without guilt. Bowling is what people have wanted down through all the millennia: sex without the slightest responsibility. It’s the very distillation of the essence of sex. Bowling is sex without fear and shame. "
