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“It's a long story. Want a refill?"
"No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?"
"Right here."
"Well, push it."
"Me? You offered to cook."
"Ben Caxton, I will lie here and starve before I will get up to push a button six inches from your finger"
"As you wish." He pressed the button. "But don't forget who cooked dinner.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
"No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?"
"Right here."
"Well, push it."
"Me? You offered to cook."
"Ben Caxton, I will lie here and starve before I will get up to push a button six inches from your finger"
"As you wish." He pressed the button. "But don't forget who cooked dinner.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land

“I was not giving answers. I was trying to shake the reader loose from some preconceptions and induce him to think for himself, along new and fresh lines. In consequence, each reader gets something different out of that book because he himself supplies the answers... It is an invitation to think -- not to believe.”
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“I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one.”
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“The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the superiority of their children- has never been plumbed.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land

“That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies; I just work here.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land

“Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land

“Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that鈥檚 what he promised 鈥榚m 鈥 his virgin daughters, young and tender and scared 鈥 urged this street gang to rape them as much as they wished in any way that they liked...if only they would leave him in peace!鈥 Jubal snorted in disgust. 鈥淎nd the Bible cites this sort of scum as being a righteous man.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land

“I don't pay any attention to politics."
"You should. It's only barely less important than your own heartbeat."
"I don't pay any attention to that either.”
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"You should. It's only barely less important than your own heartbeat."
"I don't pay any attention to that either.”
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“I was alone, with a stranger, inside the walls of a dark palace, in a strange snow-changed city, in the heart of the Ice Age of an alien world.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness

“Pain and sickness and hunger and fighting鈥攖here's no need for any of it. It's as foolish as those little monkeys.”
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“There might be nowhere I would be at home. I might always be straddling two worlds, and finding solace in neither.”
― The False Princess
― The False Princess

“Travelling is the gamble of losing oneself and the confidence that comes from self-discovery in unexpected places with people you don't know.”
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