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You underestimate the ability of people to act like idiots.

— George Alec Effinger Relatives (1973)

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They wait in clutching haste for fate to fill the inside straight of their happiness.

The Man Outside (1983)

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)

She gave me a wide-eyed, innocent smile that looked as out of place on her as it would have on a desert scorpion.

A Fire in the Sun (1989)

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