"It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri." — Alastair Reynolds
"It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri."
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14 Quotes by Alastair Reynolds
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At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through…
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Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator…
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I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to…
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Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.
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Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.
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A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.
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Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for…
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As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do…
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You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.
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How did you . . . pass the time?’ Sunday asked. ‘You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?’…
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It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed…
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I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our…
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,…
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
— Enid Bagnold
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and…
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To…
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My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted…
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
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