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Loneliness, her arch enemy, never seemed content.
Glory Season (1993)
Wisdom. No match for the troublemaker Curiosity.
Glory Season (1993)
They say survival is Nature’s only form of flattery.
Glory Season (1993)
Piss on the world, or it’ll piss on you.
Glory Season (1993)
As in elections, the law pretended universal rights, while securing the interests of powerful houses.
Glory Season (1993)
You can’t fight biology. Only push at the rules, here and there.
Glory Season (1993)
A dragon’s inertia is not shifted by yanking its tail.
Glory Season (1993)
I’d rather be dead than so suspicious I can’t trust anybody.
Glory Season (1993)
What hope has any endeavor which is based on hate and fear?
Glory Season (1993)
But it’s not so hard, learning to picture yourself as part of a great chain. One that began long before you, and will go on long after.
Glory Season (1993)
Maia recognized a look of true religion in the other woman’s eyes. A version and interpretation that conveniently justified what had already been decided.
Glory Season (1993)
“Life is the continuation of existence, yet no thing endures. We are all patterns, seeking to propagate. Patterns which bring other patterns into being, then vanish, as if we’ve never been.”
Glory Season (1993)
In the end, both extremes had more in common with each other than either did with the middle.
Glory Season (1993)
Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as “enlightenment.”
Glory Season (1993)
“It’s magic,” the chief cook concluded, in awe.
”No, not magic,” the ship’s doctor replied. “It’s much more. It’s mathematics.”
Glory Season (1993)
Some smart moves were little more than nicely padded traps.
Glory Season (1993)
How far do we owe loyalty to our creators’ dream? When have we earned the right to dream for ourselves?
Glory Season (1993)
It could be worse. I can’t think how right now, but I’m sure it could be worse.
Glory Season (1993)
At her station in life, wisdom dictated keeping a low profile.
And yet...
Glory Season (1993)
There was that word quaint again. It seemed to refer patronizingly to anything simple or backward, from the viewpoint of a city-bred tourist.
Glory Season (1993)