

“Okay, sure, he’s a great fucking guy,” Michaels didn’t try to hide his frustration. “Except for the killing everybody part.”
― Black Fire
― Black Fire

“Stefan, please, get to work. Take a picture of this.
You want a photo? Of this?
War in all its ugliness. A Pulitzer Prize awaits.
You want me to document a war crime? Your war crime?
Yes. I do.
You understand they can’t be untaken.
Proceed.”
― Magenta
You want a photo? Of this?
War in all its ugliness. A Pulitzer Prize awaits.
You want me to document a war crime? Your war crime?
Yes. I do.
You understand they can’t be untaken.
Proceed.”
― Magenta

“I disliked having a fork pointed at me and I disliked the sound of the voice never stopping; I wished he would put food on the fork and put it into his mouth and strangle himself.”
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“The pace and urgency of war have always accelerated the development of technology and encouraged novel uses of devices that already exist.”
― The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
― The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden

“People experience anger when their expectations around how they should be treated don’t align with their actual treatment (or when they expect a thing to happen based on some series of actions and it does not happen).”
― The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing
― The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing
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