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It isn’t given to very many men to have their dreams come true in their lifetimes.
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)
There are various uses for time, and I have better ones than this.
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)
“You look like any other brainless jackanapes,” he mused, “but apparently there’s some gray matter left in your artfully coiffed skull after all.”
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)
Does it not seem to you, Justice Joyce, that this series of statistics might well occur without the intervention of any Divine Will whatsoever?
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)
There has to be an end somewhere, he thought. Each thing has to end, or there will never be any room for beginnings.
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)
Wasn’t being a dilettante the result of an inner conviction that you were too good for routine living?
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)
Williamson threw his hands carefully up to heaven and snorted again. Apparently, everything Fay said served to confirm some judgment of mankind on his part.
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)
Once he’d been in his twenties, looking forward. Now he was a shade past fifty, and what he looked back on was subtly less satisfactory than what he had looked forward to.
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)
Young man, you’re living proof that our basic policy is right. I wouldn’t trust an ignoramus like you with the information required to cut his throat.
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)
It hadn’t had to take the form of this terrible bubble. It might as easily have been a sudden sharp burst behind his eyes or a slower, subtler gnawing at his vitals. But he’d known it was coming, as every man knows and tries to forget it is coming.
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)
Amnesia was the price of immortality.
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)
“Armies!” he burst out. “The day Freemen organize to invade another area is the day they stop being Freemen. They become soldiers, loyal to the army and their generals. They lose their identification with their homes and families. They become a separate class—an armed, organized class of military specialists no one family can stand against. And on that day, freedom dies for everybody.
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)