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Charles Stross on Truth

born 1964 England

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The truth hurts, but not as much as the consequences of willful ignorance.

Iron Sunrise (2004)

It’s a thing of beauty, the ability to spin the cloth of reality, and you’re a sucker for it: Isn’t story-telling what being human is all about?

Halting State (2007)

She may be mad, he realizes abruptly. Not clinically insane, just at odds with the entire universe. Locked into a pathological view of her own role in reality.

Accelerando (2005)

Well, now is the time to peel back the foreskin of misconception and apply the wire brush of enlightenment to this mass of sticky half-truths and lies. The truth hurts, but not as much as the consequences of willful ignorance.

Iron Sunrise (2004)

Attribution

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