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“Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.”

Source: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 5 (“Router”), p. 188

“A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with human skulls.”

Source: Glasshouse (2006), Chapter 1, “Duel” (p. 1; opening line)

“The Cold War was all about who could build the biggest refrigerator, wasn’t it?”

Source: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 14, “The Telephone Repairman” (p. 298)

“Had enough of my poetry yet? That’s why they pay me to fight demons instead.”

Overtime (2009)
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““Bad day at the office?”
“It’s always a bad day at the office, insofar as the office exists in the first place.””

Source: Glasshouse (2006), Chapter 18, “Connections” (p. 302)

“Perforce, the family that preys together stays together.”

Source: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 22, “Toymaker: Happy Families” (p. 251)

“Never trust a man who thinks his religion gives him all the answers.”

Source: Halting State (2007), Chapter 33, “Elaine: Gentlemen and Players” (p. 275)

“As every secret policeman knows, there is no such thing as a coincidence; the state has too many enemies.”

Source: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 6, “Telegram from the Dead” (p. 139)

“I am sick and tired of reality refusing to conform to the requirements of my meticulously-researched near-future or proximate-present fictions.”

The Curse of Laundry http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/10/the-curse-of-laundry.html, October 19, 2014
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