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can't get my people inside. These crackpots are abidingly paranoid. If a man has even a tenth part nonhuman blood, he's a breed and part of the problem. Never mind he might have been a war hero. The spiders spinning the web of hatred are sure humankind can be redeemed only through the extinction of the rest of the races. Even to the extreme of hunting down and expunging every drop of nonhuman blood. Otherwise us uniques might breed back to ..
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Oh, it's a soldier's life for me. Oh, the adventure and glory! It
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an iron law of warfare. No matter how clever you are at finding a new tool, your opponent will come up with a counter long before that can possibly be convenient for you.
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Little girls are twice as precious and innocent as little boys. I do not know a culture that does not make them that way.
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I have been told I always look at the dark underbelly of tomorrow. Possibly. You're less likely to be disappointed that way.
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Singed," he said, assuming that air of phony dignity cats adopt after some particularly inept performance. Something like, "That's what I meant to do all along."
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I am not religious. I cannot conceive of gods who would give a damn about humanity's frothy carryings-on. I mean, logically, beings of that order just wouldn't.
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Wars are being fought every day, even where armies are not on the march. And wars within wars. And wars behind wars.
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But maybe there is a force for greater good, created by our unconscious minds conjoined, that becomes an independent power greater than the sum of its parts.
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their ideas on
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The river barge "Binkey's Sequin" reminded me of a shopkeeper's wife. She was middle-aged, middle class, a little run down, a little overweight, extremely stubborn and set in her ways, needing masterful coaxing and cajoling to get her to give her loving best, but also faithful and warm and unsinkably optimistic in her care for her children."
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There is no man so insecure as a bottom-level functionary in a sinecure he has held for a long time.
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Order was what regular people wanted. Order and security were necessary before prosperity could take hold. The political crap, the who is going to be in charge, did not matter to most folks.
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What did we do today to frighten the world?
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Part of winning is a downdeep certainty that, no matter how bad things look, a road to victory will open.
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Smeds could see the shadow of the future. Get Old Man Fish and Timmy Locan to kype the spike. Get dumb old Smeds to croak them when they do. Then take the loot and walk. Who is Smeds going to complain to when he has the blood of two men on his hands? That would be just like Tully. Just like him.
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Troublesome as females are when they step out of their proper roles as connivers, manipulators, gossips, backstabbers, and bearers and nurturers of the young, slaughtering them is not an acceptable form of chastisement.
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It is not good form to bicker with your superiors, however wrong they may be and however one-sided their determination of their superiority
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Troll?" I squeaked. "Yes." "He's got jaws like a saber-tithed tooger. Soobertoothed teegar. The goddamned growly things with the fangs."
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scruff of the neck and seat of the pants, and ran him out the door to the accompaniment of appropriate old-time remarks about seedy little army types who failed to acknowledge the natural superiority of their overlords, the Marines.
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The first thing I saw was a mottled green face half a yard wide staring through the broken window. I said something intelligent like, "Gleep!" The face grinned. It was a groll, a hybrid of human, troll, and the Beast That Talks that is never named in polite company. I grinned back. Grolls are slow of wit and often quick of temper."
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My arguments were beginning to sound a little strained to me, too. I was in the position of a priest trying to sell religion.
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There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints.
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More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. Few villains think they are villains.
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People don't want to be told to do right. They don't really want to do right. They want to do whatever they want--and whine that it's not fair, it's not their fault, when it comes time to pay the piper.
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get in touch with the seamiest side of yourself. Pick a fantasy, one you wouldn't tell anyone about. One that makes you uncomfortable or embarrassed when you think about it. In the Tenderloin there's somebody who'll do it with you, for you, or to you, or somebody who'll let you watch if that's your need. Let your imagination run away. You can't think of anything somebody hasn't thought and done already. Hell, somebody's thought of something..
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The old general amazed himself. The woman amazed him even more. Sometime in the wee hours the exhausted boss general promised, "Tomorrow night again. Within the walls of Stormgard. Maybe in Stormshadow's own bed." She wanted to know the basis for his confidence. As time labored on she just got more awake and lively. But the old man fell asleep on her."
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Something he had heard some wise man say. About the three stages of empire, the three generations. First came the conquerers, unstoppable in war. Then came the administrators, who bound it all together into one apparently unshakable, immortal edifice. Then came the wasters, who knew no responsibility and squandered the capital of their inheritance upon
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Narayan will pay. I will tear his heart out and use it to choke his goddess. They do not know what they have awakened. My strength has returned. They will pay. Longshadow, my sister, the Deceivers, Kina herself if she gets in my way. Their Year of the Skulls is upon them. I close the Book of Lady.
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Something he had heard some wise man say. About the three stages of empire, the three generations. First came the conquerers, unstoppable in war. Then came the administrators, who bound it all together into one apparently unshakable, immortal edifice. Then came the wasters, who knew no responsibility and squandered the capital of their inheritance upon whims and vices.
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Raven is an asset in any game including One-Eye. One-Eye cheats. But never when Raven is playing.
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Thunderheads with lightning swords aflash on their brows grumbled and pounded the badlands, reminding me that trouble was not far away.
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Even Brownie had a comment, a small doggie whimper. She leaned against the outside of my right thigh. Yeah. I started scratching ears. Those beasts have selectively bred us for thousands of years.
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If brains were glazier's putty, he couldn't weatherproof a windowless room.
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Don't you guys ever sleep?" "Sleep? What's that? Wait! Yeah! I remember. They used to let me do that when I was in the army. Once a week whether I needed it or not."
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righteousness is not a shield. The good die more quickly than the bad.
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fright tends to fatten up on ignorance
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First, Simplest Explanation. The simplest and most obvious explanation of any phenomenon is usually the correct one.
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Second, the Stupidity Test. It's unnecessary to invoke complex, convoluted conspiracy theories where plain old human stupidity suffices as an explanation.
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Early birds. Let 'em eat worms.
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I was suspicious immediately. Be abidingly suspicious of any teenage male who is mannerly, respectful, and absent attitude. That kid is up to something. Guaranteed
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Only way you're gonna have a world with universal equality is if you got one where there's only one guy left standing.
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I greeted the morning the only way that makes sense. I groaned. I groaned some more as I pried me off the sheet. Several thousand maniacs were raising hell out in the street. I muttered dreadful threats, dropped my feet into the abyss beside my bed. My threats didn't scare up any peace. Pain blazed from my right temple to my left, ricocheted, clattered around inside my skull. I must have had a great time. I told me, "You got to quit drinkin..
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A club of sunshine whacked me right between the eyes. Like to laid me out. Gah! An ill omen for sure. These bright days are never kind. Everybody I ran into would be just like the weather: warm and sunny. Argh! I was in the mood for low overcast and light drizzle, maybe with a frigid south wind. I peeled layers of fried skin off my eyeballs, took another look. Where there is life there is hope.
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