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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“The horror! The horror!”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it’s game over forever.”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
“It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.”
― Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
― Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.”
― I, Robot
― I, Robot
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