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June 17 - September 14, 2018
novella is my favorite story-form, a lovely length, in which you can do just about what a novel does without using all those words.
Consistency is a virtue until it gets annoying.
she did not recognise the place where she had come today, a place where she was like other people, sharing with them the singular catastrophe of being alive.
“I was afraid I’d fail. So I didn’t work.”
They say one gets used to being a millionaire; so after a year or two a human being begins to get used to being a woman.
Does it matter where you go? All you have is what you are. Or what you meet.”
What we call psychosis is sometimes simply realism. But human beings can’t live on realism alone.
It is terrible how she cuts herself down. I wish I knew how to stop her from cutting herself down.
Nobody young can afford to believe in getting old.
It was better than no story at all.
Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive.
More power to them, who made love.
“You tell good stories, Asten,” Sweet Today observed. “So we’re sort of ritual humans,” said Betton. “Volunteers,” Tai said. “Experimenters,” said Lidi. “Experiencers,” said Shan. “Explorers,” Oreth said. “Gamblers,” said Karth.
“Staking everything on it,” the next voice took up the story, “because nothing works except what we give our souls to, nothing’s safe except what we put at risk.”
“The untold story mothers the lie,”
Our daily life in the auntring was repetitive. On the ship, later, I learned that people who live in artificially complicated situations call such a life “simple.”
I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a planet looks smooth, from orbit.
THE BACKSIDE OF heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that.
achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.
