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THE problem with sending messages was that people responded to them, which meant one had to write more messages in reply.
“I make friends with terribly interesting people with terribly complicated problems.”
it is by such small degrees that a culture is devoured,
the walls between lives felt so thin sometimes.)
Poetry is for the desperate, and for people who have grown old enough to have something to say.
Empire was empire—the part that seduced and the part that clamped down, jaws like a vise, and shook a planet until its neck was broken and it died.
