“Is he dangerous?
“Anyone who lies for a living is dangerous.”
Alastair Reynolds book Chasm City
Source: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 29 (p. 485).
“Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.”
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