Anathem
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No one wanted to ride with Ganelial Crade. I was embarrassed on his behalf, though not so embarrassed that I was willing to climb into his vehicle.
“In short, what people think they want is news, but what they really crave is olds.”
― The Truth
― The Truth
“Bud's relationship with the female sex was governed by a gallimaufry of primal impulses, dim suppositions, deranged theories, overheard scraps of conversation, half-remembered pieces of bad advice, and fragments of no-doubt exaggerated anecdotes that amounted to rank superstition.”
― The Diamond Age
― The Diamond Age
“It is a great pity to read a book too soon in life. The first impression is the one that counts; and if it is a slight one, it may be all that can be hoped for. A later and second perusal may recoil from a surface already hardened by premature contact. Young people should be careful in their reading, as old people in eating their food. They should not eat too much. They should chew it well.”
― Thoughts and Adventures
― Thoughts and Adventures
“A hypocrite always reserves one nest-egg or another in his heart or life, for Satan to sit and brood on.”
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“Foster never did anything that was not absolutely correct; this, perhaps, was his real weakness, for it meant that he lacked imagination, both in his work and in handling the men under him.”
― Busman's Honeymoon
― Busman's Honeymoon
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