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“You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets frustrated. After he pees in it himself, he likes the flavor much better, so he buys it.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.”
― Diplomatic Immunity
― Diplomatic Immunity
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
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“You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched.”
― A Civil Campaign
The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched.”
― A Civil Campaign
“When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.”
― Memory
― Memory
Shae’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shae’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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567 books
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25 friends
1,306 books
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80 friends
2,871 books
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44 friends
730 books
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1,794 books
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58 friends
287 books
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5,293 books
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40 friends
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