ARAlastair Reynolds

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Alastair Reynolds

Born 1966 AD; death year unknown

Name supplied in the contributor-provided quotation collection. Basic attribution label; identity, lifetime and quotation authenticity have not been independently verified.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1991 AD

Without risk in our lives, we’re scarcely better than machines ourselves.

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02c. 1991 AD

Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.

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03c. 1991 AD

Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for ever.

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04c. 1991 AD

Mathematics is a terrible calling. It’s as merciless as gravity. It swallows the soul. There’s a point near a black hole called the last stable orbit. Once you drop below that radius, no force in the universe can stop you falling all the way in. That’s what happened to your mother – she swam too close to theory, fell below the last stable orbit.

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05c. 1991 AD

We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a glimpse of what we could have been

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06c. 1991 AD

There's such a thing as free will, Tanner. You didn't have to go along with me, unless you want to admit your brain is ruled by your dick. And I didn't get the impression you regretted any of that.

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07c. 1991 AD

You don't usually think of boredom as something similar to pain. That's because you've only been exposed to it in relatively small doses. You don’t know its true colour. The difference between the boredom you know and the boredom I know is like the difference between touching snow and putting your hand in a vat of liquid nitrogen.

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08c. 1991 AD

For a moment I think we were turned into information, and that in that instant we were linked to every other piece of information ever known; every thought ever thought, or at least ever captured by the light.

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09c. 1991 AD

You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.

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10c. 1991 AD

I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several.

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