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Most importantly, perhaps, they would invent a new politics which depended on participation and consent, rather than on the top-down autocracy of Rome.

The debate over colonization always came back, as in these testimonies, to its root: the American struggle over white supremacy.

Constitutional irregularities, is it? Interesting concept — given that Torch hasn't yet adopted a formal constitution. Yup. He listed that as Irregularity Number One.

There's not much point in making logical arguments to someone who's already decided to ignore inconvenient truths, so

Admiralty House was a modest structure, only a little over a hundred stories in height

Kylpaitryc's eyes streamed tears as he coughed explosively on harsh, sinus-raping smoke.

strawmen—as manufactured ogres, created for their own propaganda purposes.

My favorite's toxophilia, arousal from archery. You wouldn't believe the poses people get into. Remember: one overnight bag, that's it.

sweeping, simplistic solutions to complicated problems are much more appealing than tackling the real thought that might actually solve them. At

in a voice flat with the panic-resisting armor of training.

It's amazing what deadly weapons compassion and morality are when they're deployed in the service of diplomacy.

Hoagland's book, The Monuments of Mars.

Whatever it is, it clearly appears to be technological and is by no means a natural formation.

Salter's book Life with a Cosmos Clearance

In uncounted ways has food forged alliances that intoxicants keep lubricated

Pace excites, and dialogue is pace. Falling into good dialogue on page one can put us in your pocket.

I could remember a half-dozen incidents in which I'd come much closer to death, but I could never recall any past moronic stunt that filled me so completely with disgust.

If God is an author and the universe is the biggest novel ever written, I may feel as if I'm the lead character in the story, but like every man and woman on Earth, I am a suporting player in one of billions of subplots. You know what happens to supporting players. Too often they are killed off in chapter 3, or in chapter 10, or in chapter 35. A supporting player always has to be looking over his shoulder.

I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.

Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

Don't ever call me adorable again. Puppies are adorable.

Britney: You in a fight? Odd: No, It's an employment-related fork wound.

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.