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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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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.
Alastair Reynolds
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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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For someone admitting guilt she sounded remarkably void of repentance.
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'Is there anyone or anything in this city which can’t be bought?' I said, slipping him a note.'Yeah,' the man said, laughing quietly. 'But I’m not it.'
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'Tanner, are you insane?''Very probably several kinds of insane,' I said. 'But I’m afraid it doesn’t change anything. I’m perfectly happy with my current delusional system.'
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Just because something had spawned a myth did not automatically mean it had to contain anything of substance.
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I was going to call it a mistake, but you could argue that there are no mistakes in war, only fortunate and less fortunate events.
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And even if what they showed you is true, that doesn’t begin to make it right. The cause might be just, Felka, but history’s littered with atrocities committed in the name of righteousness.
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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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'You can hardly blame them.''Assuming stupidity is an inherited trait, then no, I can’t.'
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As always, it was necessary to strike a balance between a cavalier disregard for the rules and a professional understanding that some rules were more flexible than others.
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By and large these attempts to rewrite history were not taken seriously, but it was disconcerting to hear that they had gained even a toehold.
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Nice girls don’t carry guns.
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Don’t overestimate your familiarity with technologies you barely understand. It could be your undoing.
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It was a numbers game, not a guaranteed method of avoiding being killed, but Clavain had been a soldier long enough to know that this was, ultimately, what most combat situations boiled down to.
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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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War does strange things to truth.
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Afterwards, when Clavain tried to imaging how he might describe it, he found that words were never going to be adequate for the task. And that was no surprise: evolution had shaped language to convey many concepts, but going from a single to a networked topology of self was not amongst them.
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