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Ecstasy hates company.
When does loyalty become martyrdom?
To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.
Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.
What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.
An honest book is almost as good as a friend.
There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.
We'll do what life always does defy expectations.
I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves.
Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.
The world is what it is and won't be bargained with.
This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.
And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.
If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.
Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.
Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?
I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.
There's no point living if you can't, at least occasionally, live.
We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.
I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.
You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.
It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass.
One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.
Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.
Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?
We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.
You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.
Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.
It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.
Goddamn you," Jacob said. "There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive.
Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.
Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end.
I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.
Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.
Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!
Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.
I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid.
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.
Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven.
It was possible at last to hear the silence to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension of the light.
I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.
The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist.
John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.
Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.
I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.
[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.
For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .
We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.
It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor and, in some ways, it's a performance.
What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency chaos, complexity, life.