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[dodont]

p12-13: "'Hell, why'd I come out here?' / 'To get more ideas. After all, they come to you when you're busy.'" ... "Then, just before he would have touched me, he vanished. / The house, the books, everything vanished."

p17 "'As real as the whole episode was, as real as I know it was, it's beginning to recede from me somehow. It's becoming like something I saw on television or read about - like something I got second hand.' ... 'Let yourself pull away from it. ... That sounds like the best thing you can do, whether it was real or not. Let go of it.'"

p53: "You did whatever you were sent out to do. It was nearly always mindless work, and as far as most employers were concerned, it was done by mindless people. Nonpeople rented for a few hours, a few days, a few weeks. It didn't matter."

p77: "A place like this would endanger him in a way I didn't want to talk to him about. If he was stranded here for years, some part of this place would rub off on him. No large part, I knew. But if he survived here, it would be because he managed to tolerate the life here. ... The place, the time would either kill him outright or mark him somehow. ... / 'Don't worry. We arrived together and we'll leave together.'"