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It was not fear that kept them from misusing what they had. It was self-respect.

— Vonda N. McIntyre Dreamsnake (1978)

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He must have been rebuffed and denigrated all his life, to be so afraid of touching another human being.

Fireflood and Other Stories (1979)

You’d have everyone substitute your fantasies for their own.

Fireflood and Other Stories (1979)

We spend most of our time carrying trivial cargoes for trivial reasons to trivial people.

Fireflood and Other Stories (1979)

He seemed to be so used to having his own way that he could not deal with bad fortune.

Dreamsnake (1978)

She had learned to doubt, rather than simply to question.

Fireflood and Other Stories (1979)

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