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“And you, keep him away from strong drink, weak women, and men who own their own dice. Understand?”
“It’s getting harder to tell the difference between art and vandalism.”
― Plum Island
― Plum Island
“In the history of art, unlike that of science, what comes after is not necessarily better than what came before.”
― Our Culture, What's Left Of It
― Our Culture, What's Left Of It
“those who refuse to consider what they do are cloaked in the shadow of stupidity, but they enjoy the shade. It is cool and comfortable there.”
― The Thicket
― The Thicket
“but already there were so many laws that a man was either a lawbreaker or a hypocrite.”
― Kings of Broken Things
― Kings of Broken Things
“Civilization is a kind of prayer: that by right action we might bring to pass the peace and quiet that is the ardent desire of every decent heart. But nature resists, for even in the heart of so great a city as Meidua, on so civilized a world as Delos, a young man might simply take a wrong turn and be set upon by brigands. No prayer is perfect, nor any city.”
― Empire of Silence
― Empire of Silence
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