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I guess you don't want to leave copies of Genocide Illustrated out for the UPS guy to see.)
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We survive. But when survival is the only goal, what do the survivors become? This
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Welcome to the Information Jungle.
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inspirational
sci-fi
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Im Schlamm fing es an, wie so vieles.
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truth
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During its timeless hours of movement and inspection, as it floated on the number-winds and learned from their shape and force, it had become aware of something else, something so far from the conceptual map of the environment it had originally been given as to briefly constitute a new danger to the Nemesis program's logical integrity.
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I thought... I thought you might..." "Help you? By my grove, I am helping you. You're not starving anymore, are you? <...> You had a dry night's sleep, too, and you're no longer coughing your liver and lights out. Some might count those as mighty gifts indeed."
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health
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They reached the eastern outskirts of the Dimmerskog on the afternoon of the next day. Although the forest was covered in a thick blanket of white snow, it nevertheless seemed, as Binabik had named it, a place of shadows. The company did not pass beneath its eaves, and might have chosen not to even had their path lain that way, so thick with foreboding was the wood's atmosphere. The trees, despite their size--and some of them were huge inde..
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When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity--a waste of precious time and effort. The
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A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive--which is knowledge--alive forever.
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He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder." More"
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In the midst of such industry, gawky Simon was the fabled grasshopper in the nest of ants. He knew he would never amount to much: many people had told him so, and nearly all of them were older--and presumably wiser--than he. At an age when other boys were clamoring for the responsibilities of manhood, Simon was still a muddler and a meanderer. No matter what task he was given to do, his attention soon wandered, and he would be dreaming of b..
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Stories are the things people use to give the universe a shape...there is little difference between a folktale, a religous revelation, and a scientific theor
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His virtual home showed none of the ostentation of others in the Brotherhood, no Gothic-fortress-perched-on-impossible-cliffs or Caligulean excesses of decor (usually accompanied by an equally Caligulean want of decorum.)
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Welcome, Simon, to the world of those who are every day condemned to thinking and wondering and never ever knowing with certainness.
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There's sense, he told himself. You build something and then you stay there. That's the way it's meant to be. Not this running here, running there, never see your blood-family or your home roofs for a year at a time.
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As he slipped away he heard his own cradled heartbeat, muffled though it was in the tickling wool of exhaustion.
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Something gurgled in his throat. It took a moment before he realized it was a scream bottled in his innards, a blast of misery trying to force its way out.
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Of all the songs we Zida'ya sing," she (Aditu) murmured, "the closest to our hearts are those which tell of things lost." "Perhaps that is because none of us can show something's value until it is gone," said Josua."
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He shouldn't have had to die." "Nobody should have to die," Miriamele said slowly. "Especially while they're still alive."
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Tad Williams |
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The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.
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Kind of like I suspect things are at night in the It's A Small World ride, when all the little figures come to life and whisper about how they'd like to torture and murder all those screaming children and grinning grown-ups in the boats.
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God shapes us with a hammer of pain on an anvil of duty. I cannot imagine what shape we will be when He is finished.
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You see, that is the secret of history, little Briony--who tells the last story.
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I'm pretty much a cat that way. Scratch my stomach, and I'll purr at you, but I'll want to gut you with my claws even more than if you'd ignored me.
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Love. Tired old jokes aside, a real, powerful love does have one thing in common with Hell itself: it burns everything else out of you.
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We call darkness our friend, but when the elders tell us stories of the Garden, they talk of the holy, unending light that was there. How did shadows become our only dwelling?
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If you are going to without trust. men tasks to do, then once they have proved themselves, you should let them get on without you standing over them. There is no point in giving responsibility wifh
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He led them around the base of a great fallen tree whose exposed roots resembled more than anything else a huge broom - a broom that would have fired the imagination of Rachel the Dragon toward heroic, legendary feats of sweeping.
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irony
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She floated in the midst of a living shadow. There was nothing but herself, surrounded by an unimaginable blackness. She could not think, not properly. She could only wait, while time or perhaps some incompetent impostor did its work. The emptiness was aeons long. Even imagination died. Aeons long. Then at last she felt something-a fluttering in the void, Oh God, it was real, it was! Something distant, but actually separate from herself. No..
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a proud man who could do more than he is asked to do. It is not good for the spirit.
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But a mouse can be brave. Small as they are, though, they learn it is wiser not to challenge the cat.
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ATTORNEY: "When you sign one of our contracts, it says very clearly on page one hundred and seventeen that all crimes that occur onsite must be immediately and accurately reported to the company."
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tunnel into Ocher Bar, the long cavern below the Counting Room.
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Do not make it my complaint, Simon." Her voice was firm but her look contained love and a little amusement as well as irritation."
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Books," Morgenes said grandly, leaning back on his precarious stool, "--books are magic. That is the simple answer. And books are traps as well." "Magic? Traps?" "Books are a form of magic--" the doctor lifted the volume he had just laid on the stack, "--because they span time and distance more surely than any spell or charm. What did so-and-so think about such-and-such two hundred years agone? Can you fly back through the ages and ask him?..
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I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.
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Tad Williams |
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An idle mind is the Devil's seedbed.
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Men do not manage well with too much peace. Someone will find a quarrel.
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Tad Williams |
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Part of manhood, I am thinking, is to ponder one's words before opening one's mouth.
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Tad Williams |
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And you, a king's daughter, who willingly gave herself to me--who brought me to her bed? Are you so high and pure?" She"
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They were all becoming brothers, in the manner he had seen before: facing death together was the greatest of levelers.
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courage
friends
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And what about lovers, like in the stories? Do they get married?" "Oh, yes. And sometimes they stay in love, but sometimes they don't. I would say it's one of the more untrustworthy reasons for marriage."
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And that is why we do it, he decided. Because we hope it will bring us peace. But it never, never does.... Sludig
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I pray that I lose my voice before my tongue ever shames me.
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