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“We regard our own memories as truths, when they are often just the stories we have told ourselves over time. They become the truth we live by, or with. They become our lives.”
― Written on the Dark
― Written on the Dark
“Why would the off-world colonists want troublesome, humanlike slaves rather than nice, efficient machines? It's simple. Machines don't suffer. They aren't capable of it. A machine doesn't know when it's being raped.
There's no power relationship between you and a machine. That's been the U.N.'s whole pitch about the attractions of the off-world colonies all along. The big human thrill. For a replicant to suffer, to give its owners that whole master-slave energy, it has to have emotions.”
― Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human
There's no power relationship between you and a machine. That's been the U.N.'s whole pitch about the attractions of the off-world colonies all along. The big human thrill. For a replicant to suffer, to give its owners that whole master-slave energy, it has to have emotions.”
― Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human
“Real guilt isn't something you parade in front of other people; it makes you want to crawl down a sewer drain and pull the manhole cover over your head. This is guilt as display, guilt as moral one-upmanship.”
― A Better Life
― A Better Life
“You get to choose who you are. Legacy, memories of the past, can serve us well. But we cannot let them define us. When heritage becomes a box instead of an inspiration, it has gone too far.”
― Skyward
― Skyward
“He'd already catalogued a curious selectivity when it came to which news stories super exercised his mother and elder sister. Neither would-be activist ever seemed especially upset by the Chinese persecution of Uighurs, for example, or by the Iranian theocracy's repression of women, although you'd think that anyone obsessed with "social justice" would care about modern-day concentration camps, and self-avowed feminists would logically find distressing stories of young women murdered by morality police for not wearing headscarves.”
― A Better Life
― A Better Life
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