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After hard fighting, when six or seven men had been wounded or killed, the war chiefs on both sides would simultaneously declare a victory.
Changing Planes (2003)
I am not comfortable with the phrase “specific obsession,” but “cultural instinct” is worse.
Changing Planes (2003)
“And your soul is in your body.”
“Such as tripe?”
Changing Planes (2003)
The Veksi are an angry species. Their social life consists largely of arguments, recriminations, quarrels, fights, outbursts of fury, fits of the sulks, brawls, feuds, and impulsive acts of vengeance.
Changing Planes (2003)
In general I evade “virtual experiences,” which were always recorded in better weather than it is today and which take the novelty out of everything you’re about to see without giving any real information.
Changing Planes (2003)
I expect people who don’t look like me not to be like me, a reasonable expectation, as expectations go; but it makes my mind slow to admit that people who look like me may not be like me.
Changing Planes (2003)
In fact, the Veksi resolutely ignore visitors from other planes, considering them to be the impotent and evil-smelling ghosts of dead enemies who will go away if no attention at all is paid to them. This has generally proved to be true.
Changing Planes (2003)
Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of what we know though we may not know we knew it. The rarest dream is the dream that tells us what we have not known.
Changing Planes (2003)
People who sleep only two or three hours in the twenty-four are always geniuses. The ones you hear about, anyway. Never mind if the ones you don’t hear about are dolts. Insomnia is genius. It must be. Think of all the work you could do, the thoughts you could think, the books you could read, the love you could make, while the dull clods lie snoring.
Changing Planes (2003)