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1 " Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of it. The human mind was easier to medicate than to comprehend. "
― Robert Charles Wilson , Vortex (Spin, #3)
2 " What is inevitable is not death but change. Change is the only abiding reality. The metaverse evolves, fractally and forever. Saints become sinners, sinners become saints. Dust becomes men, men become gods, gods become dust. "
3 " To put it crudely, in cortical democracies citizens reason together; in limbic democracies they feel together. "
4 " In the greenhouse at this nursery where I work, there are paths between the plants and the seedling tables. That's so you can get from one place to another. Also so you can work on the plants without stepping on them. Those paths all connect with one another. You can go this way or you can go that. It all has the same beginning and the same ending. Though you can only ever stand in one place at once. "
5 " Less than half an hour passed before he buzzed her from the security gate in the lobby. "
6 " You can’t really comprehend events like that, I thought. You can only endure them. "
7 " By the time she reached her apartment in Clear Lake "
8 " The Hypotheticals took you and they remembered you and eventually they re-created you, and that means the real Turk Findley is as dead and long-gone as the real Allison Pearl. You’re a convincing replica, but you were born in a desert with another man’s memories—you’re no more responsible for that man’s sins than I am for Allison’s. "
9 " Reason breeds more monsters than conscience, Mr. Findley. "
10 " The sum of all paths, "
11 " Turk had once killed a man, and he had built a life on the foundation of that guilt. "
12 " Which meant the State Care population was continually rising while its budget remained fixed. "
13 " I drew on Under a Green Sky and The Medea Hypothesis, by the reliably pessimistic Peter Ward, "