C. J. Cherryh quotes:
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Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
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Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
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Could there be a snare in too much beauty? Could there be too much expectation of good, and too much fiath? Could ever there be too much love?And could love require lies?
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Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.
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Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet.
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Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.
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The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding... and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.
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Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.
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Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!
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Writing day and night for months ... that's hard.
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I do not think any SFWA communication should come anywhere NEAR the internet.
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Rattle a lawyer's door and you get more lawyers.
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Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.
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Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen.
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A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.
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Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.
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It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.
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I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.
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Honor to the earth," the abbot said, "honor to the dead in the passing of the year; honor to the living, in the coming of the new. A Great Year passes tonight. A new one begins. Let the good that is old continue and let the rest perish....
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Never start a war with something you can't talk to.
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Nothing's hopeless except never trying.
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Change happened and you thought it was forever, and immediately there were all the enemies of that change making common cause and meeting in the cloakrooms.
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If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.