“from those humble beginnings we learned to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favors the paranoid.”
― Echopraxia
― Echopraxia
“Some women, Commander Norton had decided long ago, should not be allowed aboard ship; weightlessness did things to their breasts that were too damn distracting.”
― Rendezvous with Rama
― Rendezvous with Rama
“The people who live in any generation do much, he realized, either to create or to solve the problems for the people who come in the generations later.”
― Earth Abides
― Earth Abides
“Power inheres in a center. You're going to the center.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“He asked the boy if he was from Arizona and the boy said he was not and the Indian nodded and said it was customary among men to overstate the virtues of their own country.”
― The Crossing
― The Crossing
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