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“Maybe I shouldnt have told youabout it being electrical. She put her hand out, touched his arm; she felt guilty, seeing the effect it had on him, the change.No," Rick said. Im glad to know. Or rath...”
“Do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe. The old, the ossified, must always give way to new life and the birth of new things. Before the new things can...”
“Jump in the urinal and stand on your head. I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead.”
“He saw two stars collapse against one another and a nova form; it flared up and then, as he watched, it began to die out. He saw it turn from a furiously blazing ring into a dim core of dead iron a...”
“Insane people -- psychologically defined, not legally define -- are not in touch with reality.”
“He could see the tall, peeling yellow building at the periphery of his range of vision. But something about it struck him as strange. A shimmer, an unsteadiness, as if the building faded forward in...”
“A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.”
“What about -- not sex -- but love?''Love is another name for sex.''Like love of country,' Rick said. 'Love of music.”
“Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it is the same? Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen...”
“The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into bank...”
“Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
“But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.”
“Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand now how you suffer when youre depressed; I always thought you liked it and I thought you could have snapped yourself out any time, if no...”
“It's easy to win. Anybody can win.”
“Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told.”
“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.”
“I'm not much but I'm all I have.”
“Reality denied comes back to haunt.”
“Retrograde time is forward time which has passed the turning point; then as it turns back it is freighted with the load of accumulated knowledge. It is information rich. Logically, then, in its ret...”
“Time and tide, he thought. The cycle of life. Ending in this, the last twilight. Before the silence of death. He perceived in this a micro-universe, complete.”
