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“You’ve behaved very highhandedly, Captain Mallory. Is that the custom out here?”
“The custom is, sir, that those who know a situation handle it and those who don’t watch and learn, or get out of the way.”

— C. J. Cherryh Downbelow Station (1981)

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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

The Collected Short Fiction of C. J. Cherryh (2004)

Things whispered here, and the trees muttered with the wind and perhaps with other things. Men knew the place was old, old as the world, and they never made peace with it.

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If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.

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Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen.

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At this point I ceased argument with Lt. Goforth and shot him in the belly.

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