“You’ll have to excuse our customs and immigration staff: they preach courtesy and respect while demonstrating exactly the opposite.”

— Alastair Reynolds, book Blue Remembered Earth

Source: Blue Remembered Earth (2012), Chapter 14 (p. 265)

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