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“Do you still think I’m crazy?”
Her glance went to his left shoulder. “I’m not well enough acquainted with the norm of your people to judge.”
Barch rose to his feet. He said thickly, “About ten more minutes of double talk, I actually would be crazy.”

— Jack Vance Slaves of the Klau (1958)

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My brain, otherwise a sound instrument, has a serious defect—a hypertrophied lobe of curiosity.

The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph (1966)

Experience is the only source of wisdom: by which I mean, the competent conduct of life.

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Now, as to the persistence of superstition, only an impoverished mind considers itself the repository of absolute knowledge.

Future Tense (1964)

He used a name for himself, true, but we played at Romance, and this is a game where truth is a bagatelle.

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“Everyone is the same,” he told himself. “Anxious to arrive and, when they leave, wondering why they came.”

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