Alastair Reynolds quotes - page 9
How did you...pass the time?” Sunday asked. "You couldn't just ching out of it, could you?”
"We had a different form of chinging,” Eunice said. "An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it ‘reading.'
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But you seem so nonchalant about it all,” Teal said.
Merlin pondered this for a few seconds. "Do you think being not nonchalant would make any difference? I don't know that it would. We're here in the moment, aren't we? And the moment will have its way with us, no matter how we feel about things.”
"Fatalist.”
"Cheerful realist. There's a distinction.
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The old murals came from the heart,” Zima said. "I painted on a huge scale because that was what the subject matter seemed to demand.”
"It was good work,” I said.
"It was hack work. Huge, loud, demanding, popular, but ultimately soulless. Just because it came from the heart didn't make it good.
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I know what you're feeling," Meroka said. "You're thinking, this was my little adventure, it was all revolving around me. And now it's not. You're just a detail, swept up in the stuff she's making happen. Welcome to the way most of us spend our lives feeling, Cutter. We're just turds swirling our way down the pipe.
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