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And that didn’t even take into account Frederick Vasse, or, properly, Fastitocalon, who by his own admission was actually a fiend from Hell, or at least used to be one before a management shakeup in the seventeenth century.
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”
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“The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassins of the new Yearking's immediate family by drowning them in the tears of the Continental Empathaur in its Sadness Season.”
― Consider Phlebas
― Consider Phlebas
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
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“The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.”
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“They're on a cusp; a highly heterogeneous but highly connected--and stressedly connected--civilization. I'm not sure that one approach could encompass the needs of their different systems. The particular stage of communication they're at, combining rapidity and selectivity, usually with something added to the signal and almost always with something missed out, means that what passes for truth often has to travel at the speed of failing memories, changing attitudes, and new generations. Even when this form of handicap is recognized all they ever try to do, as a rule, is codify it, tidy it up. Their attempts of filter become part of the noise, and they seem unable to bring any more thought to bear on the matter than that which leads them to try and simplify what can only be understood by coming to terms with its complexity.”
― The State of the Art
― The State of the Art
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