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> [“The light shone on a face imprinted with more odd and unwholesome tales than a warehouse full of Bibles.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-stephenson/the-light-shone-on-a-face-imprinted-with-more-odd-and-unwholesome/)

Neil Stephenson

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## More by Neil Stephenson

> [“Sokolov was favorable impressed by the fact that he had not yet shit his pants. Men always made crude jokes about people pissing their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-stephenson/sokolov-was-favorable-impressed-by-the-fact-that-he-had-not-yet-shit/)

Neil Stephenson

> [“The light shone on a face imprinted with more odd and unwholesome tales than a warehouse full of Bibles.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-stephenson/the-light-shone-on-a-face-imprinted-with-more-odd-and-unwholesome/)

Neil Stephenson

> [“A hive mind is a social organization of RISTs that are capable of processing semantic memes ("thinking"). These could be either carbon-based or silicon-based.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-stephenson/a-hive-mind-is-a-social-organization-of-rists-that-are-capable-of/)

Neil Stephenson

> [“She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-stephenson/she-doesn-t-want-you-to-understand-her-she-knows-that-s-impossible/)

Neil Stephenson

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