“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”
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“He actually knows what has to be done and how to do it, and he's going right ahead and doing it, without holding a dozen conferences and round-table discussions and giving everybody a fair and equal chance to foul things up for him. You know as well as I do that that's undemocratic.”
― The Works of H. Beam Piper (27 books)
― The Works of H. Beam Piper (27 books)
“Conversations bore me, to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to my soul.”
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“I would be a selfish human being if I kept all this vivid imagination to myself. The world needs to read it, feel it, be there, within those words, in my faraway world.”
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“We should have suspected that nonhumans were involved right from the start when the activation process didn’t involve a lot of arcane commands that had to be done in just the right order, and the destination was displayed as a name rather than using some counterintuitive code. No human software engineer would produce a device that easy to use.”
― Victorious
― Victorious
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