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It sounded like a dream. I’d always cherished such a notion: doers conquering parasites and taking over! At the time I left America/Earth—well, skip it. You don’t need me to tell you that those of us who worked and paid taxes were slaves to those who didn’t.

— Andrew J. Offutt Ardor on Aros (1973)

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To call her a strange woman would be to say that Einstein was a bright fellow.

Ardor on Aros (1973)

“How easily you men forget, even when you tell yourselves you are ‘in love,’ whatever idiocy that phrase may convey to your superstitious and romantic little mind!”

Ardor on Aros (1973)

In a “barbarian” society (or in any society, in wartime), the conquerors naturally rape ever woman in sight. Not even the stern old lonely god of the children of Abraham frowned on that practice!

Ardor on Aros (1973)

He’d heard it said: Nature was the original and greatest sorcerer or sorceress of all.

I always thought Man might have grown up if Freud and Darwin and Havelock Ellis had lived before Napoleon and Watt and Marco Polo. And the schlemiel who invented gunpowder.

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