“Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a decision, First Councilor. In abstaining, you vote.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“The sad truth of history has always been that the unreasoning masses follow the powerful, and not the wise.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“Monsters are entirely mythological, sir, like spirits, werebeasts, and competent bureaucrats.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“A culture with cats is richer and more humane than one deprived of their unique companionship.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“La historia ha confirmado la triste verdad de que las masas irracionales siempre se han alineado detrás del poderoso y no del sabio.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“-Te llamaré Sospecha... tus compañeros de camada serán Duda, Hostilidad, Ingratitud y Estupidez.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“I wait with sullen resignation,” said Tuf, unmoving.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“Se comete un gran error creyendo que los seres humanos son capaces de alcanzar tarde o temprano los límites de su satisfacción.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“Her name was Tolly Mune, but in the stories they call her all sorts of things.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“Equity is often difficult to judge, and still more difficult to achieve,”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“It fits,” said Tolly Mune. “Sometimes I feel this ship is haunted.” “This suggests why it is wiser to rely upon intellect rather than feelings, Portmaster.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“No sooner had the Flowering taken root, so to speak, than your people rushed back to their private chambers, unleashed their carnal lusts and parental urges, and began reproducing faster than ever. Mean family size is greater now than five years ago, by .0072 persons, and your average citizen becomes a parent sooner by .0102 years.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“Weight, sir, is entirely a function of gravity, and is therefore most malleable. Moreover, I am unwilling to concede you the authority to judge my weight over, under, or just right, these being subjective criteria. Aesthetics vary from world to world, as do genotypes and hereditary predisposition. I am quite satisfied with my present mass, sir.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“If," said Haviland Tuf. "A most difficult word. So short, and so often fraught with disappointment and frustration.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
“Such are the vicissitudes of life," Tuf said, "that each of us must sometimes accept that which he does not like.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Tuf Voyaging
George R.R. Martin
Born place: in Bayonne, New Jersey, The United States
Born date September 20, 1948
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