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1 " He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless. "
― Ellen Kushner , The Privilege of the Sword (Riverside, #2)
2 " I do not make the rules [. . .] This annoys me, and so I comfort myself by breaking them "
3 " although he was at core a rotten being, no one could fault him for style. "
4 " I let the insults go by. A good swordsman doesn't pay attention to words in a fight. "
5 " Have you seen Marcus?" he asked his ugly friend."Yes, he was stoping some people in the Violet Room from climbing the curtains.""What for?""They were not professionals.""Oh. "
6 " Maybe someone would write a play just for me, one where a real woman could fight with her sword, and had many fine adventures and changes of costume. "
7 " I could make it not matter. "