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The wind rippled through the long grass. Any place three nations touch will grow well given half a chance. Blood makes for rich soil.
“I know your race and mine are never on the best of terms." There was a cold smile in his voice if not on his face. "But I do only what you force me to. You rationalize, Keeton. You defend. You reject unpalatable truths, and if you can't reject them outright you trivialize them. Incremental evidence is never enough for you. You hear rumors of Holocaust; you dismiss them. You see evidence of genocide; you insist it can't be so bad. Temperatures rise, glaciers melt—species die—and you blame sunspots and volcanoes. Everyone is like this, but you most of all. You and your Chinese Room. You turn incomprehension into mathematics, you reject the truth without even knowing what it is.”
― Blindsight
― Blindsight
“What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive?”
― Blindsight
― Blindsight
“Technology implies belligerence.”
― Blindsight
― Blindsight
“PREDATORS RUN FOR THEIR DINNER. PREY RUN FOR THEIR LIVES.”
― Blindsight
― Blindsight
“He hit and fatally injured my innocent and unfortunate uncle whose muttered last words in hospital, before his coma became a full stop, were: 'My God, the buggers've learned to fly...”
― The Wasp Factory
― The Wasp Factory
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