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"“All right. Let’s begin with the world situation.” “I’d prefer a more cheerful subject—like cancer.”"
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Keith Laumer“It’s an old trick,” the security chief said. “Reverse cunning, we cal — Keith Laumer
"“It’s an old trick,” the security chief said. “Reverse cunning, we call it in the security game; indistinguishable from utter stupidity.”"
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John Keith Laumer was an American science fiction author. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, he was an officer in the United States Air Force and a diplomat in the United States Foreign Service. His older brother March Laumer was also a writer, known for his adult reinterpretations of the Land of Oz. Frank Laumer, their youngest brother, is a historian and writer.
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"The last burst picked me up and threw me a thousand miles into an open grave and the mud showered down on me and a giant tombstone fell out of the sky to mark the place, but I didn’t care any more, because I was far away, in that place where the heroes and the cowards lie together with a fine impartiality, waiting for eternity to pass, slowly, like a procession of snails creeping across an endless desert toward a distant line of mountains. (p. 18)"
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"“M-magic?” Lafayette stuttered. “Nonsense. Electronics.”"
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"He turned; she stood in the doorway, clad in an invisible negligee."
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"Sure—that’s the concept. It wouldn’t be the first concept that had to be modified in the face of experience."
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"Adventure has been defined as somebody else having a difficult time, a long way away. (p. 17)"
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