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We spend most of our time carrying trivial cargoes for trivial reasons to trivial people.

— Vonda N. McIntyre Fireflood and Other Stories (1979)

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He must have been rebuffed and denigrated all his life, to be so afraid of touching another human being.

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You’d have everyone substitute your fantasies for their own.

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He seemed to be so used to having his own way that he could not deal with bad fortune.

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She had learned to doubt, rather than simply to question.

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She, too, felt the need for fresh air and rain and the ocean’s silent words.

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