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Take this as a bit of easy wisdom: people who try to rule over other people are going to be hated.

— Robert Silverberg The Gate of Worlds (1967)

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Ignorance can’t be pardoned. Only cured.

Up the Line (1969)

Beauty is a magnet: repels some, attracts many, leaves no one unmoved.

Capricorn Games (1974)

She shuttled between impish girlhood and neurotic womanhood.

Thorns (1967)

Anything big and strange always upsets the people in power.

Thomas the Proclaimer (1972)

The universe is a perilous place. We do our best. Everything else is unimportant.

The Man in the Maze (1969)

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