She was a student of history, valued the lessons of it. The worst atrocities began with half-measures, with apologies, compromising with the wrong si… - C. J. Cherryh

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She was a student of history, valued the lessons of it. The worst atrocities began with half-measures, with apologies, compromising with the wrong side, shrinking from what had to be done.

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About C. J. Cherryh

C. J. Cherryh (born Carolyn Janice Cherry on 1 September 1942) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.

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Birth Name: Carolyn Janice Cherry
Alternative Names: Carolyn Janice Cherryh Carolyn Cherry Carolyn Cherryh
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One tribe moves out and one tribe stays. History broadens, and philosophy shifts, develops a rift, splits one population from the other . . . and a schism happens, minor or major. It’s the way humankind has always proliferated. We go over the next hill, live a few hundred years, change our languages to accommodate things we never saw before — and before we know it, our cousins think we have an accent. Or we think they have a strange attitude. And we don’t really understand our cousins any longer.

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