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However, human beings are not governed by the straightforward laws of robotics. It is therefore difficult to judge the complexities of their motivations under most conditions.”
“When the time came to leap in faith, whether you had your eyes open or closed or screamed all the way down or not made no practical difference.”
― The Warrior's Apprentice
― The Warrior's Apprentice
“It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.’ ”
― The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
― The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so (even more so) was speech—and both are still dangerous to this day—but human beings would not be human without them.”
― The Caves of Steel
― The Caves of Steel
“Worry has weight, and is an infinitely renewable resource.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“And she made sure that she had always put sprouts on to boil just before a seance. Nothing is more reassuring, nothing is more true to the comfortable spirit of English occultism, than the smell of Brussels sprouts cooking in the next room.”
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Mary’s 2025 Year in Books
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