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I wish I could change it all. I wish I could.
But I can’t.
Dammit.
Now I know what it’s like to have an indelible past—one that can’t be erased and changed at will. It’s frustrating. It’s maddening. And it makes me wish I had been more careful and thoughtful.

— David Gerrold The Man Who Folded Himself (1973)

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The way I heard it, a contract is a list of all the ways two people don’t trust each other.

The sullen power of great violence forged into shapes of metal is always ugly.

With a Finger in My I (1972)

Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.

The Man Who Folded Himself (1973)

There isn’t a tool built that can’t be used as a weapon.

When HARLIE Was One (1972)

Don’t push the on-button if you don’t know where the off-button is.

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