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A wise man once said that if a book was not worth reading twice it was not worth reading once.”
Initially I was wondering why I had chosen this book, the chapters were very brief with these additional diary entries. However, I suggest persisting with this as in the end it was a good read.
“One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven’t treated very well. That’s much easier than accepting guilt. If we can convince ourselves that the people we betrayed or enslaved were sub-human monsters in the first place, then our guilt isn’t nearly as black as we secretly know that it is. Humans are very, very good at shifting blame and avoiding guilt. We do like to keep a good opinion of ourselves, don’t we?”
― The Complete Tamuli Trilogy
― The Complete Tamuli Trilogy
“All stories are long,” he murmured. The Fertiliser had said something like that once. Short stories are only pieces of the long one, he had said.”
― The Telling
― The Telling
“The margin between collusion and respect can be narrow,” Tong said.”
― The Telling
― The Telling
“There’s a Hainish parable of the Mirror. If the glass is whole, it reflects the whole world, but broken, it shows only fragments, and cuts the hand that holds it.”
― The Telling
― The Telling
“Hate eats the hater,” she quoted from a familiar text of the Telling.”
― The Telling
― The Telling
Colin’s 2024 Year in Books
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