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Like all career diplomats, he’d spent a lifetime sculpting the truth into the shapes that best suited the needs of the moment, and would see nothing wrong with doing the same now.
An Alien Darkness (2000)
Art isn’t just technique, in any culture…it’s also Content. It’s understanding not just How, but also What, to express.
An Alien Darkness (2000)
She thought everybody in the whole wide world was obligated to rearrange their lives to avoid doing anything that ran even a miniscule chance of offending her.
An Alien Darkness (2000)
Every once in a while, some poor bastard get saddled with the kind of impossible decision that destroys his career and makes his name a curse for the next hundred years.
An Alien Darkness (2000)
In short, they were like the complacent everywhere: in that they were already dead, and did not yet happen to know it…
An Alien Darkness (2000)
It was the sort of platitude-laden gibberish that people learn to repeat so they can imagine themselves clever without ever bothering to think an original thought themselves.
An Alien Darkness (2000)
There was never any shortage of Despair; it had always been far more common than hope, and there was always more being manufactured, everywhere in the universe. That was what made it such a convenient, and inexhaustible, Fuel.
An Alien Darkness (2000)
Talent’s cheap…historically, one of the cheapest things you can buy. And considering the sheer amount of angst you carry around on your back, you need it. After all, angst from a Talented person is fascinating; angst from a Common Everyday Nobody is just an annoyance.
An Alien Darkness (2000)