"We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere."
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"Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility."
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"[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them."
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"Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint."
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"For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape ."
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"What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency chaos, complexity, life."
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"It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass."
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"To fire a bullet into the heart or brains of one's fellow man even a fellow man striving to do the same to you creates what might be called an unassimilable memory: a memory that floats on daily life the way an oil stain floats on rainwater. Stir the rain barrel, scatter the oil into countless drops, disperse it all you like, but it will not mix; and eventually the slick comes back, as loathsomely intact as it ever was."
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"I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive."
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"Goddamn you," Jacob said. "There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive."
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"We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced."
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"To capture the pawn, threaten the queen."
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"We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars."
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"I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry."
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"Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose."
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"You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters."
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"Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere."
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"Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles."
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"If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist."
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"Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely."
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