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“Pity always was a luxury. It’s all right if the tragedy’s a comfortable distance away – if you can watch it from a seat in the cinema. It’s different when you find it on your doorstep – on every doorstep.”
― The Death of Grass
― The Death of Grass
“In China the egalitarian movement came not just from Zhu’s vision, but also from the Daoist ideas of balance, as Zhu would always point out. In Travancore it rose out of the Buddhist idea of compassion, in Yingzhou from the Hodenosaunee idea of the equality of all, in Firanja from the idea of justice before God.”
― The Years of Rice and Salt
― The Years of Rice and Salt
“And explaining them - I now feel myself duty-bound to do it, if only because I am the author of these records, to say nothing of the fact that the unknown is in general the enemy of man, and Homo sapiens is not fully man until his grammar is absolutely rid of question marks, leaving nothing but exclamation points, commas, and periods.”
― We
― We
“The Guardships don't defend Canon, they exterminate Canon's enemies. There's a difference.”
― The Dragon Never Sleeps
― The Dragon Never Sleeps
“Dresden, who was a king as of the old age, swished his tail--just once. Then, deliberately, he turned to face the coming dogs. Every muscle stood out in stark relief. He roared. The sound echoed down the street, bouncing off the neat suburban houses and well-manicured hedges with the force of dynamite. The dogs flowed at him like a tide, bottomless and unstoppable.
Dresden charged them.”
― The Library at Mount Char
Dresden charged them.”
― The Library at Mount Char
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