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Our fellow passenger was Major Grogan, who thirty years before had been the first white man to go from the Cape to Cairo. It took him three years, one whole year in the marshes of the Sudd; his two companions died. It is said he ate them; I think so. He looked like a sensible man.

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Good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

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You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?

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Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.

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Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.

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There're two kinds of people — those who think there are two kinds of people and those who have more sense.

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And here is our girl, looking— If possible, worse than before. (You thought this was Cinderella transistorized?)

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

James Tiptree, Jr

James Tiptree, Jr

Born: August 24, 1915
Died: May 19, 1987 (aged 71)
Bio: Alice Bradley Sheldon was an American science fiction author better known as James Tiptree, Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 to her death.
Known for:
  1. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
  2. The Starry Rift (1986)
  3. Warm Worlds and Otherwise (1975)
  4. Up the Walls of the World (1978)
  5. Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death (1973)

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