Clifford D. Simak · 191 pages
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“For it was authority that turned men suspicious and stern-faced. Authority and responsibility which made them not themselves, but a sort of corporate body that tried to think as a corporate body rather than a person.”
“Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.”
“Has it ever occurred to you that business as you think of it may have outlived its usefulness? Business has made its contribution and the world moves on. Business is just another dodo. . . .”
“We have fallen on hard times of the spirit, with many of the people more concerned with fear of evil than contemplation of the good.”
“And that day the cultural god of science had shone a bit less brightly, had died a little in the people's minds.”
“The pendulum had swung too far, as always, and now was swinging back, and the horror of intolerance had been loosed upon the land.”
“Squatted beside the fire, with the warmth of it upon his face and hands, he felt a smug contentment that seemed strangely out of place--the contentment of a man who had reduced his needs to the strictly basic--and with the contentment came a full-bodied confidence that was just as out of place.”
“But the bars that held you, the bars that kept you in were the luxury and soft living. It is hard to walk out on a thing like that”
“He sat there thinking of Man's capacity for the wiping out of species--sometimes in hate or fear, at other times for the simple love of gain.”
“I trade with you my mind.”
“I'm not a fighter by nature, but, if I believe in something I stand for it.”
“There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.”
“Okay," Crick said, rolling his eyes. "I give. Which part of my body is more interesting than my ass?"
Deacon rewarded his obtuseness with a smack to the head. "Your heart, you fuckin' moron...”
“There is no right or wrong; there is no one truth, there are lots of truths. And you girls should translate the world into as many different languages as possible. If you see the world in just one language, your world becomes too small.”
“Nos da miedo preguntar porque nos da miedo saber.”
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