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“Here’s the thing, Oliver: If you want to keep living your solitary computerized existence, fine. Keep doing that. You’ve got that locked down. But if you want people to want to hang out with you, you have to start letting them into your
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“Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.”
― Unseen Academicals
― Unseen Academicals
“And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.”
― When You Are Engulfed in Flames
― When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.”
― Sourcery
― Sourcery
“Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.”
― Going Postal
― Going Postal
“Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation (ch. XXI, v.16) gives it as a cube 12,000 furlongs on a side. This is somewhat less than 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic feet. Even allowing that the Heavenly Host and other essential services take up at least two thirds of this space, this leaves about one million cubic feet of space for each human occupant- assuming that every creature that could be called ‘human’ is allowed in, and the the human race eventually totals a thousand times the numbers of humans alive up until now. This is such a generous amount of space that it suggests that room has also been provided for some alien races or - a happy thought - that pets are allowed.”
― The Last Hero
― The Last Hero
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