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2432a39
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Is this a personal grudge or are you just psychotic?
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Alastair Reynolds |
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d261ec4
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War does strange things to truth.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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ab080ab
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Is he dead?" Irravel asked."Depends what you mean by dead."
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Alastair Reynolds |
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9565b86
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Some people get it. Most people never will.But that's art.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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97fd76f
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In its purest distillation beauty had always been merciless.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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2ff3a84
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You can hardly blame them.""Assuming stupidity is an inherited trait, then no, I can't."
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Alastair Reynolds |
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e04ba9a
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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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Alastair Reynolds |
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83d4f8e
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For someone admitting guilt she sounded remarkably void of repentance.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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7b44eb6
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His parents had abdicated responsibility to an illusion.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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02cd0aa
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Don't you agree with me?""On some distant theoretical level, just possibly."
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Alastair Reynolds |
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0012dee
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Am I that fascinating to you, or are you just more bored than I imagined?
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Alastair Reynolds |
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443aff8
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Is he dangerous?"Anyone who lies for a living is dangerous."
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Alastair Reynolds |
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a2d3441
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It was one of the oldest tricks of mob-management: give them a hate figure.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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e917e2d
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You seem upset by the fact that we're hated and feared.""It does give one pause for thought."
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Alastair Reynolds |
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d542d46
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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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Alastair Reynolds |
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e1ed70d
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Memo to himself: the one way to make people panic was to warn them not to.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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73fea92
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That would require an unprecedented leap of faith.""I don't do faith," Scorpio said.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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d5990f5
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Is that as bad as it sounds?" Floyd asked."No," Auger said. "It's worse. A lot worse."
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Alastair Reynolds |
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65ebae6
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It was bad, but it was some other slightly less piquant flavour of bad.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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ddd119b
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I guess I'll do what everyone else does: get on with my life and forget the big questions.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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91af4eb
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It's always easier to hate than to forgive, isn't it?
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Alastair Reynolds |
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fd08030
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Hallucination doesn't preclude a rational response to that same hallucination.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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67afa91
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There are certain truths that, in themselves, are as dangerous as any advanced technology.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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25aa768
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Some promises are best broken. Trust me on this: I'm a politician.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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f89434d
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They screwed with democracy. I'm not going to lose much sleep when democracy screws them back.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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7d754cb
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One trusted machines. But one never expected machines to return the favor.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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f11d4ad
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You are that rarest of creatures: a man with the wisdom to see beyond his own time.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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100e2dd
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Are you threatening me, shatterling""No, just indulging in a little wishful thinking."
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Alastair Reynolds |
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6284618
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No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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d8bbc39
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We're flexible," Campion said. "It's the price we pay for being sentient."
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Alastair Reynolds |
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b794a84
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We were sowing so much misinformation that some of it came back and bit us.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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8080cab
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Do you see us slavering for revenge, that most pointlessly biological of imperatives?
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Alastair Reynolds |
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45091e9
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This was a watering hole, and watering holes drew the hungry as well as the parched.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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985aee4
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She was pointing into the empty, angel-less heavens beyond.Everything else. The universe.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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d7a91b4
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The boundary between art and kitsch was negotiable, even porous.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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860ce82
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I'll argue to the death against stupid legislation, but some rules exist for a reason.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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f25fed2
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Venus was a machine for making bad weather.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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6bb12f2
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Something that bad, it makes the headlines. They were idiots to bet against physics.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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a0d97b2
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That doesn't make the slightest bit of sense.""Welcome to politics."
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Alastair Reynolds |
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125d8d8
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Crime is an adaptive organism. Squeeze one niche and it moves into another.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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7c706f1
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Humanity is an assemblage of information-processing entities, and in that regard you have potential.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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0d43430
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I can't stop being a rationalist just because it upsets some people.
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Alastair Reynolds |
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bd656ff
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You weren't there.""I didn't have to be--I know my history."
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Alastair Reynolds |
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1bae2c0
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There are no nasty surprises," Swift said, "only degrees of unpreparedness."
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Alastair Reynolds |