Tim Powers - The Anubis Gates (1983)

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I've learned that having a lot of money is more fun than not having a lot of money, and that once you've got it, it tends to grow all by itself, like a fire.

Tim Powers

You ever notice, Joe, he asked, mechanically picking up the mug, that it always takes a little more trouble to get something than the thing was really worth?
Joe considered it. Better than taking a lot of trouble and getting nothing.
Dundee sipped the coffee. He didn't seem to have heard Joe. There's so much weariness and fatigue in it all. For every action there is an equal... stupefaction. No, that might be bearable—it's greater than the action.

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Say that again after you've been in the same spot and acted differently, old buddy. Maybe then I'll be ashamed.

Tim Powers

Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.

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