Alastair Reynolds Quotes
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You are that rarest of creatures: a man with the wisdom to see beyond his own time.
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He had never lost that mingled combination of awe and terror that welled up in him when confronted by the routinely huge distances of space.
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'I’m hoping no one will be quite that stupid,' Sparver said. 'Then again, this is baseline humans we’re dealing with.'
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The battle sunk towards the horizon. Presently it would be gone, leaving a sky unsullied by human affairs.
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'That’s how it went, wasn’t it Zebra?''It might,' she said. 'If I happened to be colluding in your own delusions.'
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Rashmika could tell when anyone around her was lying. But seeing through her own deceptions was another matter entirely.
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'Is he dangerous?'Anyone who lies for a living is dangerous.'
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'I’m not a bad man, Ilia. I’m just someone who knows exactly what needs to be done.''Like you said, always the most dangerous sort.'
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Evolution doesn’t greatly care about what happens to creatures once they’ve passed on their genetic heritage.
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The future might have been crammed with miracles and wonders, but it also offered truly awesome opportunities for screwing up.
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But when she tried to say something, the words always seemed trite and inadequate. Nothing measured up. When any moment might be their last, there was nothing she could ever imagine saying that had the necessary dignity to fill that instant. Silence was better. Silence had its own dignity.
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The poor didn’t have them and so the rich flaunted them, the larger and more conspicuous the better.
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Am I that fascinating to you, or are you just more bored than I imagined?
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'All right, Marius-I get the message. In fact I intercepted it, parsed it, filtered it, decrypted it with the appropriate onetime pad and wrote a fucking two-hundred-page report on it. Satisfied?''I’m never satisfied, Mishenka. It just isn’t in my nature.'
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'How are the internal complications, anyway? Aren’t the other branches of government getting a little suspicious about all these machinations?''Let’s just say that one or two discreet assassinations may still have to be performed,' Khouri said.
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They screwed with democracy. I’m not going to lose much sleep when democracy screws them back.
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'But you can be sure there are pockets of wealth and influence, and I’m willing to wager that a few people are wealthier and more influential than they were before.''That’s always the way with disasters,' I said.'What?''They’re never bad news for everyone. Something nasty always rises to the top.'
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I’m fed up with everyone being lied to just because the administration thinks it’s in our best interests not to know all the facts.
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The one thing I never counted on was having luck on my side.It was generally simpler that way.
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Charm was what he excelled at. If anyone sensed his underlying shallowness, they usually mistook it for well-hidden great depth of character, like misinterpreting a radar bounce.
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'How long have we been friends, Dan?''I wouldn’t exactly call it friendship; more a kind of mutual parasitism.'
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There were choices to be made, harder choices than I would have liked, and I realised that I had been neglecting them because of their very difficulty.
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'Is that as bad as it sounds?' Floyd asked.'No,' Auger said. 'It’s worse. A lot worse.'
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But sanity, Vasko decided, was like the pattern of lights he could see through his cabin window. In almost any direction the only way to travel was into darkness, and there was a lot more darkness than light.