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The network was running a pre-recorded tape of a morning quiz show. The contestants looked vapid, the announcer cheerfully bored, the questions pointless, and the prizes undesirable.

— George Alec Effinger Relatives (1973)

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They wait in clutching haste for fate to fill the inside straight of their happiness.

The Man Outside (1983)

You underestimate the ability of people to act like idiots.

Relatives (1973)

Proper knowledge defeats the shouting minions of emotion.

What Entropy Means to Me (1972)

The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them.

When Gravity Fails (1986)

“How quickly I could clean this desk,” she thought, “if only the wastebasket were larger.”

Ibid (1977)

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