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The direct approach is not always the wisest strategy, as those who have fallen off mountains can testify.
Fool Me Twice (2001)
Assigning blame is a fixation of an ineffective mind.
Fool Me Twice (2001)
As ever, you vainly grasp at diaphanous vastness while the tangible turns to mist in your hands.
Fool Me Twice (2001)
If you quest after justice, young women are the wrong continent to explore. They run more to clemency or spite.
Fool Me Twice (2001)
The commerciants of Olkney were renowned for their egalitarian spirit, judging rich and poor alike solely by the weight of their purses.
Fool Me Twice (2001)
Filidor marveled at the intransigence of adolescence, not remembering that he had possessed an abundance of the same quality not many years since.
Fool Me Twice (2001)
Filidor was becoming more and more convinced that he had recently been inhabiting a reality that was at sharp variance to the rest of the world’s.
Fool Me Twice (2001)
She could be—he hoped would be—what he had always lacked: a center to the map of his life, that one, necessary fixed point from which he could navigate out into the world and by which he could always find his way back home again.
Fool Me Twice (2001)
“That is unfair,” said Filidor.
Gavne shrugged. “Things are as they are. If you quest after justice, young women are the wrong continent to explore. They run more to clemency or spite.”
Fool Me Twice (2001)
Things are as they were meant to be.
“But it was arranged so by you and me.”
Then we are instruments of fate.
“Knowing instruments,” said Filidor.
How does that make a difference?
Fool Me Twice (2001)
“We are all used, all users. With luck, the final tally approximates a balance in our favor. But I think you are one of those who calls the proverbial glass half empty, while I prefer to call it half full.”
“No,” said Filidor, “in truth, I have never given these matters much thought. I am one who quaffs the glass empty and calls for it to be refilled.”
Fool Me Twice (2001)