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Dress Blacks mag-bind down the sides, leaving a smooth front whereon is displayed a green-blue-gray-white Earth insignia, about three inches in diameter, high up on the left breast; below, the symbol for one's department is worn, followed by the rank-sigil; on the right side goes every blessed bit of chicken manure that can be dreamt up to fake dignity--this, by the highly imaginative Office of Awards, Furbishments, Insig-niae, Symbols and ..
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As for the rest of him, his function is rather like that of an anti-computer: you feed him all kinds of carefully garnered facts, figures, and statistics and he translates them into garbage.
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Niakoi neshcha nikoga ne se promeniat. Te otdavna sa prestanali da s'shchestvuvat kato predmeti i se izvisiavat kato s'bitiia, koito nikoga niama da b'dat izravneni s's zemiata v onazi posledovatelnost na neshchata, narechena Vreme.
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No mida kuradit! Lahing ei kuulu alati tugevatele ja voitma kipuvad meeldivad tuubid, sest just nemad kirjutavad parast malestusi.
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Roger Zelazny |
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What difference does it make whether you slay him or Horus slays him? He will be just as dead either way." Wakim pauses, apparently considering the matter, as if for the first time. "This thing is mission, not his." he says at length. "He will be just as dead, either way," Vramin repeats. "But not by my hand." "True. But I fail to see the distinction." "So do I, for that matter. But it is who have been charged with the task." "Perhaps H..
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it is because I am a man who occasionally aspires to things beyond the belly and the phallus.
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I watched until the sizzlecloud drew its legs up into itself, hung like a burning cocoon, then died like an ember retreating into ash. Suddenly, it was very dark and there was only the rain. Sunday
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Two versions of the same face looking into blank screens, two very different minds thinking of things unsaid. Sometimes love is in silence.
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All progress demands payment. These are the growing pains of which you speak, not the final results." "Fool! There is no such thing as progress! Not as you see it! What good are all the machines and ideas you unloose in their cultures, if you do not change the men themselves?" --
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Roger Zelazny |
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And sweets to the sweet," I replied, then spoke the word that completed the spell, dropping a load of manure upon him."
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Il volto quasi familiare diventa un fenomeno comune in una societa affollata ed in un continuo movimento. Penso talvolta che sia proprio cio che in ultima analisi rimane di noi: schemi di lineamenti, alcuni un po' piu persistenti degli altri, impressi sullo scorrere dei volti. (Il Boia torna a casa)
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I wish that some time, long ago, something had not been said that was said, or something done that was not done. Something, had we known, which might have let him grow differently, something which would have seen him become another man than the bitter, bent thing I saw up there. It is best now if he is dead. But it is a waste of something that might have been.
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I walked among Shadows, and found a race of furry creatures, dark and clawed and fanged, reasonably man-like, and about as intelligent as a freshman in the high school of your choice--sorry, kids, but what I mean is they were loyal, devoted, honest, and too easily screwed by bastards like me and my brother. I felt like the dee-jay of your choice.
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Death is the only god that comes when you call.
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Roger Zelazny |
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I didn't say anything because I didn't have anything to say.
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Roger Zelazny |
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Some are born to obscurity and others only achieve it through diligent effort.
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Roger Zelazny |
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I decided that the devil finds work for idle hands and thanked him for his suggestion.
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Roger Zelazny |
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The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.
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Roger Zelazny |
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The power to hurt... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.
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I wasn't disappointed, inasmuch as I expected nothing.
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Roger Zelazny |
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The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
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Roger Zelazny |
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Be warned, therefore, that one does not go to hell to light a cigarette.
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Roger Zelazny |
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Symbols, by their very nature, conceal as well as indicate, damn them!
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Roger Zelazny |
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The dead are too much with us.
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Roger Zelazny |
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The stars blazed like the love of God, cold and distant.
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Roger Zelazny |
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So do not speak to me of souls when you have never seen one, man.
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Roger Zelazny |
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There are circumstances under which the anomalous should be courted. Ignorance is one of them.
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Roger Zelazny |
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Never trust a cat, anyway. All they're good for is stringing tennis racquets.
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