John Varley Short Quotes

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If only she could convince them, perhaps she could convince herself.

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It was not pleasant to admit what one is willing to do to go on living.

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Never trust anybody who says 'trust me'. Except just this once, of course.

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I found that it is much more pleasurable to read adventures than to live them.

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Buildings were just the world's furniture, and he didn't care how it was arranged.

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I had kept a straight face under worse provocation, so I trust I did well enough then.

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This was a killer. Quite possibly a soldier, though Lilo was not expert in mental diseases.

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Just because Beethoven doesn't sound like currently popular art doesn't mean his music is worthless.

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But now she was fifty-seven, and suddenly ancient. Soon she would be dead. Dead. You can't get any more ancient than that.

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They understood the basic principles of morals: that nothing is moral always, and anything is moral under the right circumstances.

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It's unpleasant to find that what you had thought of as moral scruples suddenly seem not quite so important in the face of a stack of money.

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You've got to watch yourself when you get as old as I am. You have to try new things, sometimes for no better reason than that they're new. Otherwise you rust.

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Why is it that once having decided what I must do, I'm afraid to reexamine my decision? Maybe because the original decision cost me so much that I didn't want to go through it again.

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She was already putting her distance between herself and this woman she would kill. She was becoming a object, something she was going to do something unpleasant to; not a person with a right to live.

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