“He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary?”
― 1984
― 1984
“Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.”
― Dead Beat
― Dead Beat
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
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“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
― Ends and Means
― Ends and Means
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
― Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
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