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Quotes from Proteus In The Underworld — Charles Sheffield

1935–2002 England

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To a political mind, everything is politics.

Proteus In The Underworld (1995)

Sometimes wealth and power merely created the desire for more of the same.

Proteus In The Underworld (1995)

You can learn more about a person by watching them eat one meal than by listening to them speak for a whole day.

Proteus In The Underworld (1995)

When you got right down to it, every important decision in life was made with inadequate information.

Proteus In The Underworld (1995)

When in doubt, follow the money trail. People could lie, motives could be disguised, even acts could be misunderstood. Money was as constant as human nature.

Proteus In The Underworld (1995)

“It sounds reasonable to me.”
“Reasonable, but not true. Big difference.”

Proteus In The Underworld (1995)

See, everybody looks at the world from his own point of view. I call it the ground state of the resting mind. And your brain does the same thing, left alone it returns to and thinks about what it’s really interested in.

Proteus In The Underworld (1995)

Not it. He. Bey was sure he would have determined that for himself after a few more seconds. There were a hundred clues as to the innate sex of a form, and most of them had nothing to do with appearance or dress.

Proteus In The Underworld (1995)

He had defined intuition for Sondra: it was what remained after all the facts had been forgotten. But intuition could also be something else. Sometimes it was the subconscious mind, establishing deep connections long before the thinking part of the brain could explain them.

Proteus In The Underworld (1995)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Sheffield (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.