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1 " He couldn't think of a good place. At first he thought she hated all living beings equally. Lately he had come to believe he held a special place in her heart, just below rattlesnakes, pederasts, and spirochetes. Definitely a tough place to start from, but determination had always been Conal's strong point. "
― John Varley , Demon (Gaea, #3)
2 " How heavy is that day in the mountains when you built a campfire and saw a shooting star? What is the mass of yesterday? How fast is love? "
3 " Will have been! A truly stratospheric verb. "
4 " The English language was a delight to them, so illogical and fertile and well-suited to their natural desire to confuse, obfuscate, and generally side-step clear meaning whenever possible. "
5 " There were millions of Earth men and women who bought the Earth cultures big lies, and they died just as unhappy as you are now. And I suggest to you that it's a foolish thing. "
6 " Workers who complained or died were turned into zombies, so labor unrest was never a problem. "
7 " Such a lexicon of tactics. "