quotes

October 21, 2021 by achrilock

“‘How wonderful,’ Netherton said, resignedly, picking up the next section of his sandwich.”
— William Gibson, ‘Agency’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/10/21/13064/

October 20, 2021 by achrilock

“At the Paper Street Soap Company, other teams pick the petals from roses or anemones and lavender and pack the flowers into boxes with a cake of pure tallow that will absorb their scent for making soap with a flower smell.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, ‘Fight Club’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/10/20/13052/

October 19, 2021 by achrilock

“Clouds churned around the horizon. Overhead the sky was still clear, the air torn by nothing more than a light breeze. But it wasn’t normal air.”
— Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, ‘G○od Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/10/19/13033/

October 18, 2021 by achrilock

“Richer and cleverer than everyone else.”
— Scott Lynch, ‘Red Seas Under Red Skies’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/10/18/13012/

October 17, 2021 by achrilock

“That got Donny wondering, if you found Atlantis, who would own it?”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Rule of Capture’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/10/17/12996/

October 17, 2021 by achrilock

“The tragic irony of modern anti-fascism is that the more successful it is, the more its raison d'être is called into question. Its greatest successes lie in hypothetical limbo.”
— Mark Bray, ‘ANTIFA: The Anti-fascist Handbook’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/10/17/12978/

October 15, 2021 by achrilock

“So everything is expanding. But it can’t happen in contradiction to the law of conservation of matter-energy. No matter how efficient your throughput is, you can’t get an output larger than the input.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Green Mars’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/10/15/12940/

October 14, 2021 by achrilock

“‘Better than what was.’
‘It’s chaos.’
‘Creative destruction,’ said Sig. ‘It’s the future.’”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Tropic of Kansas’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/10/14/12918/

October 13, 2021 by achrilock

“Gardan laughed. ‘I have yet to see a wizard who could cow the death goddess’s priests. He must be a powerful mage.’
‘Those are only stories, Pug,’ Kulgan said. ‘What we do know about him is that when the persecution of magicians reached its height in the Kingdom, Macros fled to this island. No one has since traveled to or from it.’”
— Raymond E. Feist, ‘Magician: Apprentice’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/10/13/12894/

October 12, 2021 by achrilock

“It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future.”
— Lois Lowry, ‘The Giver’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/10/12/12878/

October 11, 2021 by achrilock

“That even the smallest perturbation may yield large and unforeseen consequences.”
— William Gibson, ‘Agency’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/10/11/12869/

October 11, 2021 by achrilock

“When I was young, American schoolchildren were taught that North America had originally been occupied by only about one million Indians. That low number was useful in justifying the white conquest of what could be viewed as an almost empty continent. However, archeological excavations, and scrutiny of descriptions left by the very first European explorers on our coasts, now suggest an initial number of around 20 million Indians. For the New World as a whole, the Indian population decline in the century or two following Columbus’s arrival is estimated to have been as large as 95 percent.”
— Jared Diamond, ‘Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/10/11/12856/

October 10, 2021 by achrilock

“Though we have laws of our own we abide by—and better laws than theirs, I think.”
— John Christopher, ‘Wild Jack’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/10/10/12839/