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“Everything came and went, everything was new and bright with promise once and old and worn out later, and everything left a small, diminishing stain on eternity, a mark that time would eventually erase.”
― Alastair Reynolds, House of Suns

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“I felt like a kid at Santa Claus's funeral.”
― David Gerrold, The Man Who Folded Himself

tags: disappointment

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“Life is full of little surprises.
Time travel is full of big ones.”
― David Gerrold, The Man Who Folded Himself

tags: time-travel

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“And your oil engines are just a deplorable perversion – dirty, noisy, poisonous, and the cars you drive with them are barbarous, dangerous...”
Chocky in "Chocky”
― John Wyndham, Chocky

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“It's said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.”
― David Brin, The Postman

tags: power

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