“It could be worse. I can’t think how right now, but I’m sure it could be worse.”
David Brin book Glory Season
Source: Glory Season (1993), Chapter 4 (p. 74)
“Hell of a world we live in, huh? (…) But it could be worse, huh?"
"That's right," I said, "or even worse, it could be perfect.”
Source: Burning Chrome (anthology, 1986)
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