Blackmore Dennett > Quotes

“back. I’ve never met him, and yet I seem to know him so well. There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done. It’s for men to do them, and for women to reserve their love as a reward for such men. Look at that young Frenchman who went up last week in a balloon. It was blowing a gale of wind; but because he was announced to go he insisted on starting. The wind blew him fifteen hundred miles in twenty-four hours, and he fell in the middle of Russia. That was the kind of man I mean. Think of the woman he loved, and how”
― Blackmore Dennett, The Ultimate Sci Fi Collection

“Thomas Paine: ‘To argue with those who have renounced the use and authority of reason is as futile as to administer medicine to the dead.”
― Blackmore Dennett, The Ultimate Sci Fi Collection

“The way to keep a secret was to confide it to nobody; every time you did, you doubled, maybe even squared, the chances of exposure.”
― Blackmore Dennett, The Ultimate Sci Fi Collection