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Ed’s Quotes

“It almost sounds sensible when you say it," Prince First-Born Splendor said. "Even though I know better.”
― Michael Swanwick, Chasing the Phoenix

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“Give humanity a truly unlimited field, and it would fill it with Happy Meal toys and holographic sports-star, collectible trading card game art.”
― Charles Stross Cory Doctorow, The Rapture of the Nerds

tags: humanity-humans

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“History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian

tags: 1962, 363, gossip, history, priscus, truth

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“It was as if the room beyond the blast furnace was a tub and someone had turned the faucets on the cold and hot running snakes.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

tags: snakes

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“...Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist.”
― Gore Vidal, Burr

tags: journalism

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