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The Epstein Drive hadn’t given humanity the stars, but it had delivered the planets.
The beautiful thing about losing your illusions, he thought, was that you got to stop pretending. All the years he’d told himself that he was respected, that he was good at his job, that all his sacrifices had been made for a reason fell away and left him with the clear, unmuddied knowledge that he was a functional alcoholic who had pared away everything good in his own life to make room for anesthetic.
Liquor doesn’t make you feel better. Just makes you not so worried about feeling bad.”
when you got right down to it, humans were still just curious monkeys. They still had to poke everything they found with a stick to see what it did.
