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The key was never to let yourself look back, unless something was actively chasing you. Even then it was usually better not to know how close it was on your arse.
“For most of the past century, your odds of being killed by a cougar were about the same as your odds of being killed by a filing cabinet. Snowplows kill twice as many Canadians as grizzly bears do.”
― Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
― Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
“Spring surprised me, as she always does those of us who remain most of our lives indoors”
― The Best of Gene Wolfe
― The Best of Gene Wolfe
“Evolution left us with another burden: our cognitive, emotional, and moral faculties are adapted to individual survival and reproduction in an archaic environment, not to universal thriving in a modern one.”
― Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
― Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
“—something in her back seat gulps, very softly, Da-dump.”
― The City We Became
― The City We Became
“the Jaunt”
― The Vanished Birds
― The Vanished Birds
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