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“Yes, I love him. Why did you ask that?"
[...]"How can you... How do you..."
But Pugh could not tell him. "I don't know," he said, "it's practice, partly. I don't know. We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
― Nine Lives
[...]"How can you... How do you..."
But Pugh could not tell him. "I don't know," he said, "it's practice, partly. I don't know. We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
― Nine Lives
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
“[...]there was no other such comfort on this dead hollow world. More power to them, who made love.”
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“Genre, a concept which could have served as a useful distinction of various kinds of fiction, has been degraded into a disguise for mere value-judgment. The various "genres" are now mainlt commercial product-labels to make life easy for lazy readers, lazy critics, and the Sales Departments of publishers.”
― The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands
― The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands
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