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Humanity had become as blase about sharing their lives with potential AI monitoring as pre-Civil War Old Earth USA-southern families had been about speaking in front of their human slaves.
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Reading your sonnets?" asked Orphu. Mahnmut closed the book. "How'd you know? Have you taken up telepathy now that you've lost your eyes?" "Not yet," rumbled the Ionian. Orphu's great crab shell was lashed to the deck ten meters from where Mahnmut sat near the bow. "Some of your silences are more literary than others, is all."
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feels the same about life - that involvement with it is like the Catholic Communion only the World is the Host, and it must be chewed.
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tourists smelling of UV lotion and cannabis.
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Have you ever noticed how on a trip--even a very long one--it is often the first week or so that stands out most clearly in your memory? Perhaps it is the enhanced perception that voyages bring, or perhaps it is an effect of orientation response on the senses, or perhaps it is simply that even the charm of newness soon wears off, but it has been my experience that the first days in a new place, or seeing new people, often set the tone for t..
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Weltschmerz
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Even in the still shadowed places, glowbirds nestled like Japanese lanterns above lighted walkways, glowing swingvines, and illuminated hanging bridges, while fireflies from Old Earth and radiant gossamers from Maui-Covenant blinked and coded their way through labyrinths of leaves, mixing with constellations sufficiently to fool even the most starwise traveler.
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A thin line of beard along his jawline served to accent the sharpness of his countenance as surely as blood on a knife blade.
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May there not be superior beings amused with any graceful, though instinctive attitude my mind may fall into, as I am entertained with the alertness of a Stoat or the anxiety of a Deer? Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine ... By a superior being our reasonings may take the same tone--though erroneous they may be fine-- This is the very thing in which consists poetry ..." --JOHN KEATS..
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Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the last six months has persuaded him otherwise. Has it?
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Thomas Blanky wondered if he had been an instrument of evil -- or perhaps just of folly -- when he had used his more than three decades of ice-master skills to get 126 men the impossible 250 miles through ice to this place where all they could do was die
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Black man invented plasma. Fellow named Charles Drew. I read somewhere that he bled to death after a car accident in the nineteen fifties because some cracker North Carolina hospital didn't have any 'Negro blood' in the fridge and refused to give him 'white blood.
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I ignore religions," said Brawne Lamia. "I do not succumb to them."
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How about," she said, "that you do the logical thing because it's the logical thing to do?"
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Dan Simmons |
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War does not call for judgment," I said, "merely survival."
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He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.
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Dan Simmons |
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I was not surprised to wake up alive. I suppose one is surprised only when one awakens dead.
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Dan Simmons |
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The future is never written...only penciled in.
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Dan Simmons |
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Life is brutal that way...the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
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Dan Simmons |
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The human mind gets used to strangeness very quickly if it does not exhibit interesting behavior.
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Dan Simmons |
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Crudely effective, but wildly inefficient.
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Dan Simmons |
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I am of no faith," said Aenea. "If one defines faith as belief in the supernatural."
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Dan Simmons |
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While I was obsessed with my own misery, there were other things occurring in the human universe.
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If the universe has any soul, it is the soul of irony.
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If one is to observe, M. Endymion, one must be in the proper place to observe.
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