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• Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

  Vernor Vinge

  Pain, Deception, Levers

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.145, Macmillan

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• But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

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  Information, Natural, Increase

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• Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.

  Vernor Vinge

  Liars, Once Upon A Time, Mouths

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.546, Macmillan

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• Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.

  Vernor Vinge

  Writing, Horror Stories, Sometimes

  "A Fire Upon the Deep". Book by Vernor Vinge, April 1992.

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• Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.

  Vernor Vinge

  Stretching

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.171, Macmillan

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• The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

  Vernor Vinge

  Hair, Voice, Scalpels

  Vernor Vinge, Maureen F. McHugh (1993). “The Tor sf sampler: featuring excerpts from the 1993 Nebula and Hugo nominees : A fire upon the deep by Vernor Vinge and China mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh”

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• Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!

  Vernor Vinge

  Years, Flying, Legends

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.595, Macmillan

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