* add tinag quote

[lib.git] / signature_stuff / quote.txt

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@@ -1060,3 +1060,18 @@ that inhabits you for a moment
 only. I would like to be that unnoticed
 & that necessary.
  -- Margaret Atwood "Poetry in Motion" p140
+%
+I stared at the mountain rising over me. Empty. It was a pointless
+thing to have done -- climb up it, across it, and down it. Stupid! It
+looked perfect; so clean and untouched, and we had changed nothing.
+[...] I had been on it too long, and it had taken everything.
+ -- Joe Simpson "Touching the Void" p117
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+Have you ever noticed: the most vocal superpatriots are the old men
+who send young men out to die.
+ -- Harlan Ellison "Basilisk" (_Deathbird Stories_ p73)
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+"Do you think you might be suffering from post-traumatic stress
+disorder?" [...]
+"Who isn't?"
+ -- Walter Jon Williams _This Is Not A Game_ p121