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It was just him and me. He fo...

It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor . . . I fought to win.

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Early to bed and early to ris...

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

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The great forces of history w...

The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals.

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If a pig goes upon the thresh...

If a pig goes upon the threshing-floor, or a field, or a garden, and the owner of the meadow, or the field, or the garden smites it so that it die, he shall give it back to its owner; but if he does not give it back, he becomes a thief.

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The funny thing was, you see,...

The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.

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The selective voluntary blind...

The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community.

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My father always said that go...

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

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Someday stars will wind down ...

Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be.

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You know how writers are... t...

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

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I learned to separate the sto...

I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones, and you're a lot more likely to find one of the latter than the former your first time through the tale.

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What you are is a man who mea...

What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he's done, and that's as good as any man ever gets.

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Soldiers can sometimes make d...

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

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there were crimes and quarrel...

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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In philosophy class I think w...

In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.

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Happiness is not a life witho...

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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We don't read novels to have ...

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

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In the moment when I truly un...

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.

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She remembered the story from...

She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell. Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it. And it's delicious.

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Whenever the law gets its han...

Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.

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And enough for me that when m...

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

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