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Vodou says, there’s God, sure, Gran Mèt, but He’s big, too big and too far away to worry Himself if your ass is poor, or you can’t get laid. Come on, man, you know how this works, it’s street religion, came out of a dirt-poor place a
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“What have you told him to do?” she whispered. “I told him to judge, to impose order.” Alia stared out at the guard, marking how patiently they waited—how orderly. “To dispense justice,” she murmured. “Not that!” he snapped. “I suggested that he judge, no more, guided by one principle, perhaps …” “And that?” “To keep his friends and destroy his enemies.” “To judge unjustly, then.”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
“Vodou says, there’s God, sure, Gran Mèt, but He’s big, too big and too far away to worry Himself if your ass is poor, or you can’t get laid. Come on, man, you know how this works, it’s street religion, came out of a dirt-poor place a million years ago. Vodou’s like the street. Some duster chops out your sister, you don’t go camp on the Yakuza’s doorstep, do you? No way. You go to somebody, though, who can get the thing done.”
― Count Zero
― Count Zero
“Perhaps the question isn’t ‘What use is art?’” Wit mused. “Perhaps even that simple question misses the point. It’s like asking the use of having hands, or walking upright, or growing hair. Art is part of us, Kaladin. That’s the use; that’s the reason. It exists because on some fundamental level we need it. Art exists to be made.”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth
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