Adam Roberts Short Quotes

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So it ends
As it begins.
Off we climb
And no one wins.

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Do you know what this is?
The floor, Miss?
Dust! I read about it—tiny particles of matter.

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Jac considered: there were worse things that could happen than him dying. Of course, there were much better things too.

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By all means let us consult your needs! So long as they overlap precisely with my needs, I'm sure we can accommodate them.

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The motives that explained human murder bunched, historically, into three groups: material gain; personal grudge and sociopathy.

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It had to be one or the other. Did it have to be one or the other? Even the question as to whether it had to be one or the other had to be one or the other!

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Nobody can overthrow the fascist dictator by being nicer than him. The reason for this is: by definition everybody is always already nicer than the fascist dictator.

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She didn't have to believe the technology existed. She only had to believe that people believed the technology existed. People, being stupid, believed all sorts of things.

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You're just doing that to pass the time, said Davide, dismissively.
Just to pass the time, agreed Jac. Though I suppose time will pass, in any case, regardless of what I do.

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Come out, Sukarno cried into the vegetation. I have a gun!
Mr. Sukarno, said Iago, without looking at him. You are, if you don't mind me saying, too fond of shouting 'I have a gun.'

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One of the curiosities of anger, of course, is that the more you focus it outward, firing it at the injustices of the world, the more it actually parses your own self-pity and resentment.

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Diana got that seventh-sense intimation that she had touched on an unmentionable matter; although a strangely involuted one whereby the fact that it was unmentionable was itself unmentionable.

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What's inside the box?
Doubt is there.
What's another name for doubt?
Death is another name for doubt. Death is what inflects the immortal certainty of the universe's process with uncertainty.

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