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Arthur C. Clarke on Memorial Day

1917–2008 England

← All quotes by Arthur C. Clarke

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Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and spirit, because the equilibrium state of the cosmos is death...

The Light of Other Days (2000)

CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.

Space and the Spirit of Man (1965)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arthur C. Clarke (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.