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“I am a dull fellow...my person reeks, my conversation consists of insipid platitudes.”
― Jack Vance

“A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.”
― K.J. Parker, Blue and Gold

“Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.”
― K.J. Parker, The Hammer

“It ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.”
― Norman Spinrad, Bug Jack Barron

“QUESTION: Who governs the governors?
ANSWER: Entropy.”
― Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment

“Stay a dreamer, and you'll never have your dream; get down in the nitty-gritty, and when you get your dream you see what horseshit it was in the first place.”
― Norman Spinrad, Bug Jack Barron

“Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?”
― Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment

“It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches.”
― Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment

“How I hate you," he said softly. "If hate were stone I could build a tower into the clouds.”
― Jack Vance, The Gray Prince