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Lir’s Quotes

“He’s a pretty serious believer.’ ‘Yeah? Funny how it doesn’t get in the way of his commercial life.’ ‘Yeah, well. Organised religion, you know.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Broken Angels

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“It has been a messy week, and I blame myself as much as anyone else. I feel like a behaviourist who has designed her rat’s maze poorly.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

tags: humor, psychology

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“Shopping is physical interaction, exercise of decision-making capacity, sating of the desire to acquire, and an impulse to more acquisition, a scouting urge. It’s so basically fucking human when you think about it. You’ve got to learn to love it,”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

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“Catholics get on well with tyranny. It's in the culture.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

tags: catholicism, humor, religion, tyranny

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“The only problem they had ... was in drawing the fine differences between war-mass murder of people wearing a uniform not your own; justifiable loss-mass murder of your own troops, but with substantial gains; and criminal negligence-mass murder of your own troops, without appreciable benefit.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

tags: war

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