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    Yoon Ha Lee
    “Superstition is irrational, but a little irrationality is perfectly justified where that man is concerned.”
    ― Yoon Ha Lee, Raven Stratagem
    tags: superstition
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    Yoon Ha Lee
    “Counterfactuals never feed the children.”
    ― Yoon Ha Lee, Raven Stratagem
    tags: hypocrisy, reality
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    Yoon Ha Lee
    “The hexarchate was a terrible place to live, but it would be an even worse one if no one with a conscience consented to serve it.”
    ― Yoon Ha Lee, Raven Stratagem
    tags: conscience, service
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    Susanna Clarke
    “He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone - which is only to be expected in a fairy or an angel, but is somewhat disconcerting in an attorney.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
    tags: lawyer-jokes, magic, positivity
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    Susanna Clarke
    “Across the expanses of northern England a thousand, thousand darknesses, a thousand, thousand places for the King to be. I greet thee, Lord, and bid thee welcome to my heart.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
    tags: king, ominous
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    Susanna Clarke
    “I do not believe you have ever given your friends a moment's anxiety - except for worrying that this wicked world would quickly take advantage of someone so honest.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
    tags: anxiety, friendship, honesty
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    Susanna Clarke
    “He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to the consternation of passers-by.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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    Susanna Clarke
    “I am very adept at killing all sorts of things! I have slain dragons, drowned armies and persuaded the earthquakes and tempests to devour cities! You are a man. You are all alone as all men are. I am surrounded by ancient friends and allies. Rogue, what do you have to counter that?”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
    tags: killing, monologue, power
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    Benjamín Labatut
    “Just imagine how far we have fallen into uncertainty if the human imagination cannot find a single place to lay its anchor, if not a single stone in the world has the right to be considered immobile!”
    ― Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
    tags: physics, uncertainty
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    Benjamín Labatut
    “Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation.”
    ― Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
    tags: physics, reality
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    Redfern Jon Barrett
    “...and this smoke is ours too. We savvy better than anyone how hallow it rings when they cackle about love and freedom. We savvy their obsession with dividing everyone into homie and palonie. We savvy how they'll hurt others in the name of family, security, tradition.”
    ― Redfern Jon Barrett, Proud Pink Sky
    tags: polari, politics, speech
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    Redfern Jon Barrett
    “Humiliation prickled him while he picked at the fragments of glass, as though an unseen audience had judged his life and found him wanting. Not his circumstances, not his orientation, but him, himself, whole.”
    ― Redfern Jon Barrett, Proud Pink Sky
    tags: humiliation, judgement
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    Redfern Jon Barrett
    “As the hours passed, she realised that their work wasn't pointless at all: it was vital to keep going in the face of aggression; to put things back together when others wanted you to fall apart.”
    ― Redfern Jon Barrett, Proud Pink Sky
    tags: perseverance
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    Redfern Jon Barrett
    “What someone thinks about you--even someone as close to you as Gareth--is no reflection of who you are. In fact, there is no who you are. We're different with each person, we change with each circumstance.”
    ― Redfern Jon Barrett, Proud Pink Sky
    tags: identity
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    “Flesh and blood had its own relationship to reality: necessary, but not sufficient.”
    ― Peter Watts, Blindsight
    tags: reality
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    “I've been tweaked plenty. Change one more synapse and I might turn into someone else.”
    ― Peter Watts, Blindsight
    tags: identity
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    “PREDATORS RUN FOR THEIR DINNER. PREY RUN FOR THEIR LIVES.”
    ― Peter Watts, Blindsight
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    Susanna Clarke
    “Perhaps that is what it is like being with other people. Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.”
    ― Susanna Clarke
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    Joe Haldeman
    “Most of you are too young to remember the term future shock. Back in the seventies, some people felt that technological progress was so rapid that people, normal people, couldn't cope with it; that they wouldn't have time to get used to the present before the future was upon them.”
    ― Joe Haldeman, The Forever War: The Best of the SF Masterworks
    tags: progress
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    Shoshana Zuboff
    “I actually want to stress that I think that many of the things that one can do should certainly not be done by corporations or governments without users' consent.”
    ― Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
    tags: agency, privacy
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    Shoshana Zuboff
    “You are not the product; you are the abandoned carcass. The "product" derives from the surplus that is ripped from your life.”
    ― Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
    tags: capitalism
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    Greg Egan
    “Sunset arrived with the punctuality geometry dictated.”
    ― Greg Egan, Dichronauts
    tags: funny
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    Greg Egan
    “I'm not sure that humiliating the wealthy would work in my favor, Theo mused. I believe there've been a few occasions in history where that didn't turn out so well.”
    ― Greg Egan, Dichronauts
    tags: funny, history, sad
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    Alasdair Gray
    “You want to mix me with someone else's despair, and I hate despair! I want to be free, and freedom is freedom from other people!”
    ― Alasdair Gray, Lanark: A Life in Four Books
    tags: despair, freedom, social
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    Alasdair Gray
    “Man is the pie which bakes and eats himself and the recipe is separation.”
    ― Alasdair Gray, Lanark: A Life in Four Books
    tags: cannabalism, separation
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    Alasdair Gray
    “Only human beings have the hideous versatility to adapt to lovelessness and live and live and live while being exploited and abused by their own kind.”
    ― Alasdair Gray, Lanark: A Life in Four Books
    tags: cruelty, humanity
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    “They should know my difference, they should sense my unfathomable fucking depths.”
    ― Ling Ma, Severance
    tags: independence, outsider
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    Juan Rulfo
    “That man you refuse to mention by name has torn your Church apart, and you've allowed him to do it. What should we expect from you now, Father? What have you accomplished with the authority of God? I want to convince myself you're a good man and that the people there hold you in high esteem, but it's not enough to be good. Sin is wrong.”
    ― Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo
    tags: disappointment, morality, theology
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    Yoon Ha Lee
    “The woman unsmiled at Rhehan. I will be accompanying you.”
    ― Yoon Ha Lee, Hexarchate Stories
    tags: suspicion, tone
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    Yoon Ha Lee
    “War is about people. Even when you're killing them.”
    ― Yoon Ha Lee, Hexarchate Stories
    tags: mercy, war
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