25 Quotes by James Tiptree Jr.



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    Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.

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    With your hand controlling all the input and your eye reading all the response you can make them a god . . . and somebody'll do the same for you.

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    All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn’t laughter.

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    You know, exams are like war – the birth rate of ideas goes up. Anything to keep from this dismal regimen, says poor mind, and hopefully tosses up another distraction.

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    Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.

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    Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial.

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