“People like us can’t adopt whole theories, as you did. If we can do the next thing, and have an hour a day to think in, we can accomplish marvels, but as far as any high-handed scheme of blind dominance is concerned—we’d just make asses of ourselves.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“Extremes,' said the Controller, 'meet. For the good reason that they were made to meet.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Thought that he was a clock was like a clock was like a spring in a clock when it breaks and explodes when he had his fits. But he was not like a clock or at least was only like a clock to me. But to himself? Who knows? And so it is not he who was like a clock but me.”
― Tinkers
― Tinkers
“That was one manifestation of fear, the voice which whispered that he could not be both great and good, that genius was the exact combination of those inexplicable grooves and twists in his mind, that any discipline would curb it to mediocrity.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
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