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Ursula K. Le Guin
“Power inheres in a center. You're going to the center.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
tags: power

Cormac McCarthy
“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.”
Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

George R. Stewart
“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.”
George R. Stewart, Earth Abides

“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.”
Peter Watts, Echopraxia

Gene Wolfe
“And when he beheld their dark sails, smutted by the burning tar that had blinded their enemy, he believed them blackened in mourning for the young man, and he threw himself down, and so perished. For no man lives long when his dreams are dead.”
Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw

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