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“Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.”
― Guards! Guards!
― Guards! Guards!
“The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.”
― Guards! Guards!
― Guards! Guards!
“He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania.”
― Mort
― Mort
“Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.”
― How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
― How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
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