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A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge
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“I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.”
“Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.”
“[The Universe] does not care, and even with all our science there are some disasters that we can not avert. All evil and good is petty before nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that can not be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.”
“Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.”
“One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.”
“Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.”
“He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.”
“All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.”
“Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.”
“Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.”
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Book Keywords:
humor, aliens, disasters, flexibility, deception, empathy, pain, intelligence, terror, conculture, nature, change, liars, insanity, history, manipulation, writing-history, sadism, sorrow, good-vs-evil, hurting, crying, war
