“All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.”
― Watchmen
― Watchmen
“Listen, I'm going to tell you this because no one else will, Franklin. Spider-Man sucks.”
― Fantastic Four, Vol. 1
― Fantastic Four, Vol. 1
“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
― Children of Dune
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
― Children of Dune
“It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.”
― Dune
― Dune
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