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Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor (Individual Quote)

How foolish to hesitate before such a small matter you might suppose, but to me it does not seem so small at all. - (Prize of Gor, Chapter 1, Sentence #18)
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1 18 How foolish to hesitate before such a View more quotes about small">small matter you might suppose, but to me it does not seem so small at all.

Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor (Context Quote)

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1 15 So then I might say "She did this," and "She saw that," knowing that the "she" is myself, my own sentient, so much, sometimes so painfully so, self-aware self.
1 16 How shall one speak? Perhaps I shall shift my modality of discourse, as seems appropriate, given what I must say, what I must tell.
1 17 I do not know.
1 18 How foolish to hesitate before such a small matter you might suppose, but to me it does not seem so small at all.
1 19 It might seem a simple thing, how to tell a story, but it is not so easy for me.
1 20 You might, of course, I do not know you, find no difficulty in this.
1 21 But had you had my experiences, and were you I, were you faced with yourself, and frightened, or disconcerted, or shamed, you might, too, seek to distance yourself from that most sensitive, usually most zealously concealed, of subject matters, yourself.
So then I might say "She did this," and "She saw that," knowing that the "she" is myself, my own sentient, so much, sometimes so painfully so, self-aware self. How shall one speak? Perhaps I shall shift my modality of discourse, as seems appropriate, given what I must say, what I must tell. I do not know. How foolish to hesitate before such a small matter you might suppose, but to me it does not seem so small at all. It might seem a simple thing, how to tell a story, but it is not so easy for me. You might, of course, I do not know you, find no difficulty in this. But had you had my experiences, and were you I, were you faced with yourself, and frightened, or disconcerted, or shamed, you might, too, seek to distance yourself from that most sensitive, usually most zealously concealed, of subject matters, yourself. - (Prize of Gor)