“Life is not fair…Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.”
Source: The Uplift War (1987), Chapter 111 (p. 634)
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Source: On Being Blonde (2007), p. 52
Context: The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them.
“If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.”