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19) Think before you make the coward's choice. Old age is not for sissies. (Larry Niven)
Peace isn't a stable condition, not for us. Maybe not for anything that lives. View quote
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Matthew Leiah Keller sat beneath a watershed tree and brooded. Other children played all around him, but they ignored Matt. So did two teachers on monitor duty. People usually ignored Matt when he wanted to be alone. Uncle Matt was gone. Gone to a fate so horrible that the adults wouldn't even talk about it. View quote
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A thrint was master over every intelligent beast. This was the Powergiver's primal decree, made before he made the stars. So said all of the twelve thrintun religions, though they fought insanely over other matters. View quote
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It does not destroy matter, which is reassuring. Rewriting one law of physics is worse than trying to eat one peanut. View quote
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There's always another problem behind the one you just solved. Does that mean that you should stop solving problems? View quote
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Seen through the glow of a building orgasm, a woman seems to blaze with angelic glory. View quote
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I asked him, "Do you know the difference between nude and naked?” He shook his head. "Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.”. View quote
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What's intelligence for if not for seeking knowledge? View quote
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Suddenly Corbell missed Mirabelle terribly. He mourned her, not because she was dead, but because she was gone. View quote
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He felt good. At worst he had found a brand-new way to die. (Larry Niven)
You're insane. Imagine my amazement. View quote
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The trouble with sharing too many beds was that one's chance of running into a really bad situation was improved almost to certainty. View quote
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Any time seems long when you need to make a decision but can't. View quote
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Was he deadpan because he didn't care anymore? How much boredom can you meet in three hundred years? View quote
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Just take my word for it, will you? Assume I'm a genius. View quote
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And the air was full of the smell of burning bridges. View quote
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What's the justification for ancestor worship? You know what happens to a man without modern geriatrics: as he ages his brain cells start to die. Yet people tend to respect him, to listen to him. View quote
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Writing is, therefore, both a form of compulsive behavior and, I frequently tell people, a self-induced form of mental illness. Those few writers who don't start off by being a little nuts soon get that way as a direct result of their vocation. View quote
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Yes, the bleeding heart was something else again. A gruesome symbol on a vivarium floor. Fingers that broke without their owner noticing. An ink drawing appearing from nowhere on a dossier cover, like a signature. A signature. View quote
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Our society depends entirely on its technology. Change the technology, and you change the society. Most especially you change the ethics. (Larry Niven)
With all its horrors and all its failures, life was bearable where there were hot showers. View quote
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A species that can't develop spaceflight is no better than animals. View quote
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Do you know what it's like to be suddenly poor and not know how to live poor? View quote
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The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of cause. View quote
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