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Hello, fish," I whispered, reciting an old incantation. "Welcome to my barrel.

According to him, the firmware on our OIVs has not been altered in any way—it just isn't functioning properly now, due to the changes in Anorak's infirmware.

Halliday had to keep all of his D&D stuff over at Og's house. Because his own parents thought D&D was satanic and forbid him from playing it.

My ship stood out in the vast array of vessels, since it was the only giant robot.

Before I could protest, she laid a hand on my avatar's chest and muttered a few arcane words.

I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it.

Sir, the only problem is that you're a complete fucking moron

Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again).

I gave her another salute—then, like a goofball, I pretended to poke myself in the eye as I did, just to hear the sound of her laugh.

You're evil, you know that?" I said. She grinned and shook her head. "Chaotic Neutral, sugar.

I'd spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

Fort Smith, being the place of my longest stay, was the scene of my largest medical practice.

Esta sera mi venganza: Que un dia llegue a tus manos el libro de un poeta famoso y leas estas lineas que el autor escribio para ti y tu no lo sepas!

acusaron de defender "el comunismo de la propiedad".

Fraudulent hope is one of the greatest malefactors, even enervators, of the human race, concretely genuine hope its most dedicated benefactor.

Die Politik jeglicher Färbung ist mir seit langem zuwider, und ich marschiere hinter keiner Fahne mehr her. Auch ist die Erdrevolution mit politischen Mitteln nicht zu bewältigen. Sie dienen höchstens zur Garnierung des Vulkanrandes, falls sie nicht die Entwicklung sogar vorantreiben.

There is only one kind of land reform today: expropriation.

was an acclaimed novelist and translator of German authors. Along with his original novels, including Medner Hill Farm and The Leaden Cupid, Creighton made many classics of German

This is an important difference. It turns the questioning into something closer to an interrogation.