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Doesn't it make you wonder abo...

Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother?

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All the stories are fictions. ...

All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.

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The story is one that you and ...

The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.

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You're a monster. Thanks. Does...

You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.

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Sometimes lies were more depen...

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

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If you give orders and explain...

If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.

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All the common people want is ...

All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.

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No human being, when you under...

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

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Personal affection is a luxury...

Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

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We care about moral issues, no...

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodnessЂ'the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

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Andrew said you were the best ...

Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew.' 'He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six.' 'Right.' 'And you're the oldest.' 'Yes.' 'That's too bad. Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.

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there were crimes and quarrels...

there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.

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Grief,she reminded herself, is...

Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

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The only way to retrieve a sec...

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

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Human: That's stupid. Isn't th...

Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?

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I wonder sometimes if the moti...

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

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A character is what he does, y...

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.

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Happiness is not a life withou...

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

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Let me be loved like that, by ...

Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.

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When you have wisdom that anot...

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.

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