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You’ll have to excuse our customs and immigration staff: they preach courtesy and respect while demonstrating exactly the opposite.
Blue Remembered Earth (2012)
What you encountered was an abomination, a military intelligence. It was designed to be insidious and spiteful and inimical to life, and it wasn’t smart enough to have a conscience.
Blue Remembered Earth (2012)
The boundary between art and kitsch was negotiable, even porous.
Blue Remembered Earth (2012)
The air crackled with rivalry and the potential for swift backstabbing.
Geoffrey hadn’t sensed anything like it since his last academic conference.
Blue Remembered Earth (2012)
“I worry that it’s me they’re really after.”
“You don’t exist. At the risk of wounding your ego, not everyone in the known universe is obsessed with you and your secret history.”
Blue Remembered Earth (2012)
She looked at him, marvelling. “Sometimes it’s as if you’re living a century behind the rest of us.”
“Elephants don’t care what century it is. They care what season it is.”
Blue Remembered Earth (2012)
We have been clever, and on occasion we have been foolish. For smart monkeys, we can, when the mood takes us, be exceedingly stupid. But it was cleverness that brought us to this point, and it is only cleverness that will serve us from now on.
We have no time for anything else.
Blue Remembered Earth (2012)
She worked quickly, but not because she considered the commission beneath her. It was simply the way she always approached her art. Preparation, forethought, hours of meditation, then an explosion of swift and decisive action, like the quick and merciful descent of a sword. Execution, in every sense of the word.
Blue Remembered Earth (2012)