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What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

John Brunner, The Jagged Orbit (1969)

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When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (1986)

Citação fantástica (148)

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)

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There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.”

John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider (1975)

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It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818)

Citação fantástica (145)

In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing. You could put your bishop out there to mate the other guy’s king, and he could lean down and whisper in your bishop’s ear, and suddenly it’s playing for him, and moving like a rook. And you’re fucked.

Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (1993)

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All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (1999)

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History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking - an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything.

Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (1992)

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If you're going to do something that crazy, save it for when it'll make a difference.

Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice (2013)

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He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring because yesterday has brought it.

Neil Gaiman, American Gods (2001)

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Luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn’t generally have to see that, if one doesn’t wish. You’re free to enjoy its benefits without troubling your conscience.

Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice (2013)

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When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances they say that’s a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events – the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there – that must also be a miracle. Just because it’s not nice doesn’t mean it’s not miraculous.

Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times (1994)

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We live well in the houses — well enough. But we are ruled utterly by fear. There was a time we sailed in ships between the stars, and now we dare not go a hundred miles from home. We keep a little knowledge, and do nothing with it. But once we used that knowledge to weave the pattern of life like a tapestry across night and chaos. We enlarged the chances of life. We did man’s work.

Ursula K. Le Guin, City of Illusions (1967)

Citação fantástica (128)

You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar (1991)

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The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren (1974)

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We're blind moles. Creeping through the soil, feeling with our snoots. We know nothing. I perceived this . . . now I don't know where to go. Screech with fear, only. Run away.

Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle (1962)

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I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (1999)

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Still, after much heated debate, voting, counting, and recounting, the village council had decided that clairvoyance was more sacred than dementia and therefore should always be given the benefit of the doubt.

Thomas Olde Heuvelt, The Ink Readers of Doi Saket (2013)

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There’s no point in believing in things that exist.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (1992)