Alastair Reynolds Quotes
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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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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.
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In Clavain’s experience, it was the less comforting possibility that generally turned out to be the case. It was the way the universe worked.
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One trusted machines. But one never expected machines to return the favor.
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It seemed that she had not so much misjudged the woman as assigned her to completely the wrong species.
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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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'How long have we been friends, Dan?''I wouldn’t exactly call it friendship; more a kind of mutual parasitism.'
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She would worry, just as you worry. It’s the people who don’t worry-those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right-they’re the ones that cause the problems.
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It was bad, but it was some other slightly less piquant flavour of bad.
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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 battle sunk towards the horizon. Presently it would be gone, leaving a sky unsullied by human affairs.
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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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'Is he dangerous?'Anyone who lies for a living is dangerous.'
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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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'Can I still wish you good luck?''You can wish me what the hell you like. It won’t make any difference. If it did, it would mean I hadn’t prepared well enough.
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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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'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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The future might have been crammed with miracles and wonders, but it also offered truly awesome opportunities for screwing up.
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Am I that fascinating to you, or are you just more bored than I imagined?
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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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'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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'I thought debate was supposed to be healthy,' she countered.'It is,' Auger replied, 'so long as you don’t disagree with me.'
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'I don’t like this at all,' Hegazi said.'Believe me,' Sylveste said, 'you’re about to like it a lot less.'
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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.