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Stephen Theaker

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	Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #50 by Stephen Theaker (Goodreads Author), John Greenwood, Rafe McGregor 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“She did not know then that the price of allowing false opinions was the gradual loss of one's capacity for forming true ones.”
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“We do not like the idea that any other creature can be better than we are. It is highly probable that if we ever have to face a superior race, we will die of it.”
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“Whatever terrific events may inform our lives, it always comes to that in the end; we just want to lie down.”
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“It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.”
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