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I looked at myself in the mirror. I looked awful, but I always look awful in the mirror. I keep myself going with the firm belief that my real face is much better looking.

— George Alec Effinger When Gravity Fails (1986)

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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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