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As individuals, they were as worthless as bolts. But organized and manipulated in bulk, they had the same potential as . . . big sacks of bolts. Collectively, they were a really big blunt object that I would be able to hit other nations
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“Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca

“In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.
(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)”
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(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)”
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“You can't throw too much style into a miracle.”
― A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
― A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“To qualify as a Seeker, it was necessary to show a high serendipity factor. In my experimental behaviour pool as a child, I had exhibited such a factor, and had been selected for special training forthwith. I had taken additional courses in Philosophical, Alpha-humerals, Incidental Tetrachotomy, Apunctual Synchronicity, Homoontogenesis, and other subjects, ultimately qualifying as a Prime Esemplastic Seeker. In other words, I put two and two together in situations where other people were not thinking about addition. I connected. I made wholes greater than parts. Mine was an invaluable profession in a cosmos increasingly full of parts.”
― The 1977 Annual World's Best SF
― The 1977 Annual World's Best SF

“Our cultures used to be almost hereditary, but now we choose them from a menu as various as the food court of a suburban shopping mall. Ambition, curiosity, talent, sexuality or religion can draw us to new cities and cultures, where we become foreigners to our parents. Synthetic cultures are nimbler than old ones, often imprudently so. They have scattered so widely that they can no longer hear each other and now some have gone so far afield that they have passed through the apocalypse while the rest of us are watching it on TV.”
― Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing
― Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing

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