Top 21 C.S. Friedman Quotes
#1. All data leaves a trail. The search for data leaves a trail. The erasure of data leaves a trail. The absence of data, under the right circumstances, can leave the clearest trail of all.
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#2. Tomorrow could not get better if one failed to survive today.
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#3. Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.
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#5. Let me tell you the tale of a poet who hanged himself with promises ...
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#6. A man does not truly understand his limitations until he has tested them.
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#7. Sometimes the decision is placed in your hands and you just have to go with it, right or wrong, according to what you think is best.
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#8. Look," she told me. "A good kreda is very hard to find. I invested a lot of time and memory in you. I had no intention of giving all that up, just because you were going to be in a bad mood for a decade or two.
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#9. I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).
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#10. All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that humans were cruelest when segregated by sex, and the cold feeling in the pit of my stomach became led. What had I let myself in for?
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#11. There is no such thing as redemption, my friend. There is right, there is wrong, and there are a million shades of color between the two. Once you've done wrong, it is always with you. You just have to try and be better.
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#12. The Tyr had tried. It had really tried. It must have gone over every element of human psychology, tried desperately to understand the nature of human aesthetic sense ... and then failed, miserably, in every regard.
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#13. How much blood was being made to flow for that last show of elegance?
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#14. Only in summer-phase is it carnivorous.
If there was an award for understatement, I thought, the Tyr would trounce all competition.
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#15. An uninspired ruler works to develop those relationships which will be most to his advantage. A great ruler determines the most desirable relationships and assumes them into being.
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#16. We share need, not-human. Yours is straightforward." ... "Mine is less so, but you will serve it. Come.
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#17. I stood balanced on the brink of madness. Insanity and longevity are a truly terrifying combination; if I gave in now, I might pay the price for centuries to come.
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#18. In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret.
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#19. The more I think about it, the more it frightens me."
"So why are you getting involved?"
He shut his eyes. "So I can look at myself in the mirror again. And know that I did my best.
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#20. Anger of any kind is a dangerous emotion, it eats at the nerves and eventually makes you careless
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#21. What is a child?" he asks her.
The diamond gaze does not flinch. "Creatures that are sold on the street by their parents, to get the coin to make more children." She paused. "Adults sell themselves.
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