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He never had really been able to understand what it was that she wanted him for...although he felt certain that she wanted him for something real, that he filled some need for her, as she did for him, which could for lack of a more specific term be called love.

— Robert Silverberg Against Babylon (1986)

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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)

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

The Gate of Worlds (1967)

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