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The thing about pacifism is this: it is learned, not inherited, some people’s answer to a broken-glass universe full of bad, full of men and women who won’t think twice about suturing together a future from the corpses of those they see as
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“Harrow,” said Gideon, “if my heart had a dick you would kick it.”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth
“Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.”
― Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
― Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
“From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.”
― The High Window
― The High Window
“I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.”
― Network Effect
― Network Effect
“We didn't exactly believe your story.'
Then --?'
'We believed your two hundred dollars.'
'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant.
'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right.”
― The Maltese Falcon
Then --?'
'We believed your two hundred dollars.'
'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant.
'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right.”
― The Maltese Falcon
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