Quotes From "Terminal World" By Alastair Reynolds

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.
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A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy. Alastair Reynolds
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At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit of the eye, into the frontal lobe; the ice pick was then stirred around until it reduced the problematic brain tissue to non-functioning porridge. Alastair Reynolds