People born into unwelcoming worlds and unreliable environments have a different response to the new precarities than do people who presumed they would be protected.
“I don't know,” said the papa. “We shall just have to keep on and see. Perhaps when they meet the Prince and Princess we shall find out. I don't suppose a boy would fall in love with a boy.” “No,” said the niece; “but he might want to go off with him and have fun, or something.” “That's true,” said the papa. “We've got to all watch out.”
― Christmas Every Day and Other Stories
― Christmas Every Day and Other Stories
“The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial, and criminal courts in all areas of the Galaxy, and especially, where possible, the more corrupt ones, this.
The previous sentence makes sense. That is not the problem.
This is:
Change.
Read it through again and you'll get it.”
― So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
The previous sentence makes sense. That is not the problem.
This is:
Change.
Read it through again and you'll get it.”
― So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
“I never been to New York, but it must be a heavenly place for a vacation, if a feller c'n judge by what some of my present boarders have to say about it. It's a sort of play-actor's paradise, ain't it?" "It is paradise to every actor who happens to be on the road, Mr. Jones," said Barnes, slipping his big pack from his shoulders and letting it slide to the floor.”
― Green Fancy
― Green Fancy
“POLEVOY (to Chaadaev) But no doubt you have read Kukolnik's play? CHAADAEV No … I started to read it, but after a while I seemed to lose interest, and I was still on the title. Stankevich,”
― Voyage: The Coast of Utopia, Part I
― Voyage: The Coast of Utopia, Part I
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