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e010c6f
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"It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You offered to cook." "Ben Caxton, I will lie here and starve before I will get up to push a button six inches from your finger" "As you wish." He pressed the button. "But don't forget who cooked dinner."
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stranger-in-a-strange-land
science-fiction
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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2f53778
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That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies; I just work here.
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religion
god
stranger-in-a-strange-land
priests
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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83c1961
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"Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that's what he promised 'em - his virgin daughters, young and tender and scared - urged this street gang to rape them as much as they wished in any way that they liked...if only they would leave him in peace!" Jubal snorted in disgust. "And the Bible cites this sort of scum as being a righteous man."
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stranger-in-a-strange-land
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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4e60f72
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I was alone, with a stranger, inside the walls of a dark palace, in a strange snow-changed city, in the heart of the Ice Age of an alien world.
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winter
stranger-in-a-strange-land
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Ursula K. Le Guin |