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“During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.”
― Earth Abides
― Earth Abides

“Man has been growing more stupid for several thousand years; I myself shall waste no tears at his demise.”
― Earth Abides
― Earth Abides

“For he realized that a man should make peace with himself, even though all conditions changed, and that a man should face the question of whether in his life he had satisfied the ideas which he had built up within himself as to what he should be, and that all this was not a matter of priests and religion but of a man himself.”
― Earth Abides
― Earth Abides

“The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.”
― Earth Abides
― Earth Abides

“He started to engage the gears, and then suddenly paused with a feeling of uneasiness. He did not regret leaving his own car, but still something worried him. In a moment he remembered. He went back to his old car, and took out the hammer. He carries it over to the station wagon and laid it at his feet. Then he drove out of the garage.”
― Earth Abides
― Earth Abides

Alistair MacLeod, OC FRSC (July 20, 1936 – April 20, 2014) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic. His powerful and moving stories v ...more
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