“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
“That is why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it.”
― The Middleman
― The Middleman
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
― Ends and Means
― Ends and Means
“For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”
― The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”
― The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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