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There were worlds in the jewel. There was ancient Barsoom of my childhood fairy tales; there was Middle Earth with brooding castles and sentient forests. The jewel was a window on something unimaginable, a place where there were no questions and no emotions but a vast awareness.

— John Varley

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The nice thing about being a pessimist is that bittersweet is an improvement.

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They understood the basic principles of morals: that nothing is moral always, and anything is moral under the right circumstances.

Like plugging into life-support equipment, I view apologizing as a dangerous vice that can take over your whole life if you give in to it.

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Predestination is the ugliest word in any human language.

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I found that it is much more pleasurable to read adventures than to live them.

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