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““I asked him, "Do you know the difference between nude and naked?" He shook his head. "Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.””

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“Once Louis Wu had sworn to live forever.”

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In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap.

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“There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.”

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“Music had played suddenly through the cabin, complex and lovely, rich in minor tones, like the sad call of a sex-maddened computer. Nessus whistled.”

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“This place is a playground for a questing mind.”

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“have precious little free will," he was saying. "We're too intelligent not to see the right answers.”

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“1a) Never throw shit at an armed man. 1b) Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man.”

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We learn only to ask more questions.

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“Everything starts as somebody's dream.”

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Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.

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And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

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For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics…

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