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“A predawn hush had come over the desert basin. He looked up. Straight overhead, the stars were a sequin shawl flung over blue-black. Low on the southern horizon, the night's second moon peered through a thin dust haze--an unbelieving moon that looked at him with a cynical light.”
― Dune
― Dune
“So yes--my words will probably be read. A better question is whether or not anyone will believe them. Almost certainly not, but that doesn't matter. It's not belief that I'm interested in but freedom. Writing can give that, I've found.”
― Everything's Eventual
― Everything's Eventual
“Thee old woman was a witch shadow--hair like matted spiderwebs, hooded 'round darkness of features, eyes like glittering jewels.”
― Dune
― Dune
“I walked on, still delighted with the rude beauties of the scene; for the sublime often gave place imperceptibly to the beautiful, dilating the emotions which were painfully concentrated.”
― Letters Written During A Short Residence In Sweden, Norway And Denmark
― Letters Written During A Short Residence In Sweden, Norway And Denmark
“I had nothing else, but the image was so clear--and so disturbingly odd--that I had to write a story about it. It came out smoothly and without a single hesitation, supporting my idea that stories are artifacts: not really made things which we create (and can take credit for), but preexisting objects which we dig up.”
― Everything's Eventual
― Everything's Eventual
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