The butler recognized me, even favoring me with a minute change in his expression. Evidently I had become a celebrity. Politicians and sex stars may cuddle up to you and it doesn’t prove a thing, but when the butlers of the world notice you, you realize that some of what you believe about yourself is true.

— George Alec Effinger When Gravity Fails (1986)

More quotes by George Alec Effinger

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When Gravity Fails (1986)

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