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I feel as if I'm missing all the excitement.”
”In my experience,” Tunguska said, making himself a temporary seat, "excitement is always better when it happens to other people. (Alastair Reynolds)

The mere fact that there could be danger in this is fascination in itself; almost an incentive to push further. That's how you feel, isn't it? Every argument they could use against you would only strengthen your resolve. Because knowledge makes you hungry, and it's a hunger you can't resist, even if you know that what you're feasting on could kill you.

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I'll survive,” Floyd said. "I'm a private detective. If I don't get clouted on the head at least once a week, I'm not doing my job properly.

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That would require an unprecedented leap of faith. I don't do faith, Scorpio said.

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Maps had never really been his thing, even during his days under Scorpio in Chasm City. There, it had hardly mattered. Blood's motto had always been that if you needed a map to find your way around a neighbourhood, you were already in trouble.

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Just because something had spawned a myth did not automatically mean it had to contain anything of substance.

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I don't question your loyalty, Skade. I just wonder exactly what it is you're loyal to.

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His parents had abdicated responsibility to an illusion.

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There was something about the cocksure confidence of that statement that gave Auger goose pimples. It was like an invitation to fate.

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She had almost dared ask, but was perhaps too fearful of hearing something she could not refute.

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They screwed with democracy. I'm not going to lose much sleep when democracy screws them back. (Alastair Reynolds)

"Besides-we all know guns don't kill people, do they?” "No, it's the small metal projectiles that generally do the killing,” Cahuella said, smiling.

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"Can I still wish you good luck?” "You can wish me what the hell you like. It won't make any difference. If it did, it would mean I hadn't prepared well enough.

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How long have we been friends, Dan?” "I wouldn't exactly call it friendship; more a kind of mutual parasitism.

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It was a numbers game, not a guaranteed method of avoiding being killed, but Clavain had been a soldier long enough to know that this was, ultimately, what most combat situations boiled down to.

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I was going to call it a mistake, but you could argue that there are no mistakes in war, only fortunate and less fortunate events.

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No one ever took music away from me, but I'm damned if it ever sounds quite as good as it used to when I was twenty.

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In Clavain's experience, it was the less comforting possibility that generally turned out to be the case. It was the way the universe worked.

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"But of course, you don't believe in the existence of sin, do you?” "I believe in the existence of reckless stupidity,” Rashmika replied.

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He had never lost that mingled combination of awe and terror that welled up in him when confronted by the routinely huge distances of space.

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But sanity, Vasko decided, was like the pattern of lights he could see through his cabin window. In almost any direction the only way to travel was into darkness, and there was a lot more darkness than light. (Alastair Reynolds)

"What happened?” "Let's just say my efforts to reprogram the weapon were not an unqualified success, shall we, and leave it at that?” She hated discussing failure almost as much as she hated the thing itself.

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Is this a personal grudge or are you just psychotic?

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The one thing I never counted on was having luck on my side. It was generally simpler that way.

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For whatever reason, I am now fully conscious. Perhaps all beta-levels are capable of this, or perhaps my sheer connectional complexity ensured that I exceeded some state of critical mass. I have no idea. All I know is that I think, and therefore I'm exceedingly angry.

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Alastair Reynolds

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Occupation: British Author
Born: March 13, 1966
Quotes count: 236
Wikipedia: Alastair Reynolds

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