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The English social anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer, in his 1965 Death, Grief, and Mourning, had described this rejection of public mourning as a result of the increasing pressure of a new “ethical duty to enjoy oneself,” a novel “imperative
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“What do your crazy speciests do?” Kizzy asked.
Sissix shrugged. “Live on gated farms and have private orgies.”
“How is that any different than what the rest of you do?”
“We don’t have gates and anybody can come to our orgies.”
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Sissix shrugged. “Live on gated farms and have private orgies.”
“How is that any different than what the rest of you do?”
“We don’t have gates and anybody can come to our orgies.”
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
“He did not run from his grief, nor did he deny its existence. He could study his grief from a distance, like a scientist observing animals. He embraced it, accepted it, acknowledged that it would never go away. It was as much a part of him as any pleasant feeling. Perhaps even more so.”
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
“That should be my epitaph when I die 'she did not have to do it'.”
― The Voyage of the Basilisk
― The Voyage of the Basilisk
“What cannot be said will be wept.”
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“I can wait for the galaxy outside to get a little kinder.”
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
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