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“Deep bitterness is venom to the heart”
― Rattlesnake
― Rattlesnake
“A person who works for an oppressive regime is an oppressor.”
― The Fugitive
― The Fugitive
“[he] thought that war consumed people from the inside, leaving them without ethical substance; it reduced them to blurry and dusty scarecrows who simply repeated gestures learned at an earlier age of the universe. The blindness of the conflict left them like trees riddled with termites.”
― Rattlesnake
― Rattlesnake
“The cold, unforgiving now, scrapes the insides of the men's nose with an icy finger. They feel it in the roots of their jaws.”
― North Sun: Or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
― North Sun: Or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
“Even if we wear stilts, we still have to use our own legs, and remember the added height is just a mirage. Sooner or later we have to get off them. And even on the world’s highest throne, we’re still sitting on our asses”
― Rattlesnake
― Rattlesnake
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