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Writer, Novelist

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Adam Roberts (born 30 June 1965) is an academic, critic and novelist.

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“Death is the currency of power.”

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“So it ends
As it begins.
Off we climb
And no one wins.”

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““Do not,” Dakkar barked, “juxtapose yourself and myself in any sentence your mouth may form!”

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““Do you know what this is?
“The floor, Miss?”
“Dust! I read about it—tiny particles of matter.””

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“Jack considered: there were worse things that could happen than him dying. Of course, there were much better things, too.”

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“The motives that explained human murder bunched, historically, into three groups: material gain; personal grudge and sociopathy.”

historically sociopathy explained

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“By all means let us consult your needs! So long as they overlap precisely with my needs, I’m sure we can accommodate them.”

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““There is always war,” said Dakkar, coldly. “There will always be war, whilst empires oppress and distort human potential.””

always war potential

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““The situation on, on earth is complicated.”
“You mean politics?” Dakkar spat the word, with immeasurable contempt.”

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“Let us not entirely abandon Occam’s Razor! The possible, no matter how unlikely, is always to be preferred to the impossible, however appealing.”

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““Very well. I do not wish to initiate a political discussion. I care only for loyalty.”
“Loyalty,” said Jhutti, “is a political word.””

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“It had to be one or the other. Did it have to be one or the other? Even the question as to whether it had to be one or the other had to be one or the other!”

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“Nobody can overthrow the fascist dictator by being nicer than him. The reason for this is: by definition everybody is always already nicer than the fascist dictator.”

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““You must register your disagreement, must you Monsieur?” he said, in a level voice. “Consider it registered. Consider it simultaneously disregarded.””

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“She didn’t have to believe the technology existed. She only had to believe that people believed the technology existed. People, being stupid, believed all sorts of things.”

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“One of the curiosities of anger, of course, is that the more you focus it outward, firing it at the injustices of the world, the more it actually parses your own self-pity and resentment.”

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““I avoid all political complications,” said Cloche, with a severe expression. “Of whatever stripe. I only wish that political complications would similarly avoid me, and my work.””

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“Money is not our concern. Our concern is the sea. The sea is not persuaded by bankers’ drafts and stocks of bullion; the sea respects nothing but the grit and willpower of dedicated seamen.”

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“Diana got that seventh-sense intimation that she had touched on an unmentionable matter; although a strangely involuted one whereby the fact that it was unmentionable was itself unmentionable.”

unmentionable seventhsense intimation

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““You’re just doing that to pass the time,” said Davide, dismissively.
“Just to pass the time,” agreed Jac. “Though I suppose time will pass, in any case, regardless of what I do.””

pass dismissivelyjust regardless

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“What’s inside the box?
Doubt is there.
What’s another name for doubt?
Death is another name for doubt. Death is what inflects the immortal certainty of the universe’s process with uncertainty.”

another name uncertainty

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“Have you never seen human beings acting in a mob-frenzy? Have you never seen a religious rite that tipped people over the edge? Did you not see footage of the rock-and-roll music concerts they have in America?”

never seen rockandroll

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“It could be any one of a dozen things. Experience has taught me that we much more often see connection where there is only random copresence. Pattern-seeking consciousness, you know. Great plains ape, you know.”

patternseeking consciousness experience

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““I have heard the rumours,” said the captain, directing his attention to the food on his plate.
“Ah, but rumours,” said Lebret easily, “may not be trusted. Appearances, you see, can trump reality.””

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“People-problems did not interest her. Data seemed to her a larger, purer, more transcendent quantity than Homo sapiensness. Human-to-human interactions were, effectively, all just politics, and politics bored her.”