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Neal Stephenson
“The windows on the Dovetail side of the gatehouse were larger, and she could see the two corgi dogs outside, peering in through the lead latticework, flabbergasted that they had, through some enormous lacuna in procedure, been left on the outside, wagging their tails somewhat uncertainly, as if, in a world that allowed such mistakes, nothing could be counted on.”
Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

Neal Stephenson
“It had come from one of two corgis who were even now slamming their preposterous bodies into each other not far away, trying to roll each other over, which runs contrary to the laws of mechanics even in the case of corgis that are lean and trim, which these were not.

This struggle, which appeared to be only one skirmish in a conflict of epochal standing, had driven all lesser considerations, such as guarding the gate, from the combatants' sphere of attention...”
Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

“Truth is the irony of fate.”
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“Iedolas : A curious old law I still permit in the outlands. A thief who escapes his captor can no longer be held to account for his crime.

Regis : A warning to the victim? Never show weakness, lest you forgo the hand of justice.

Iedolas : Oh no, good king. Far from it. It is a warning to the hand of justice itself: Never to loose its grip.”
Takeshi Nozue

George R.R. Martin
“They held each other close and turned their backs upon the end.
The hills that split asunder and the black that ate the skies;
The flames that shot so high and hot that even dragons burned;
Would never be the final sights that fell upon their eyes.
A fly upon a wall, the waves the sea wind whipped and churned —
The city of a thousand years, and all that men had learned;
The Doom consumed it all alike, and neither of them turned"
―Tyrion Lannister and Jorah Mormont, quoting a poem about the Doom”
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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