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There have been moments when I also wasn’t able to attach as much importance to football as it seemed to me I should.
Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak (1977)
Beyond his own sure knowledge, he had not a shred of proof.
Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak (1977)
What strange circumstances, or what odd combination of many circumstances, must occur, I wondered, to make it possible for a man to step from one world to another.
All Flesh is Grass (1965)
The old and the young, he thought. The old, who do not care; the young, who do not think.
Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak (1977)
Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.
Time is the Simplest Thing (1961)
Enoch caught his breath at the beauty and the wonder of it — the old, hard wonder of what this thing might be and what it might be meant to do.
Way Station (1963)
There is a certain rapport, a sensitivity — I don't know how to say it — that forms a bridge between this strange machine and the cosmic spiritual force.
Way Station (1963)
Hank Fisher would tell how he'd tried to break into the house and couldn't and there'd be others who would try to break into the house and there'd be hell to pay.
Way Station (1963)
The party was beginning to get noisy—not boisterous, but noisy. It was beginning to acquire that stale air of futility to which, in the end, all parties must fall victim.
Time is the Simplest Thing (1961)
“It’s a wonder to me,” said Adams sourly, “that you don’t simply melt down in the white heat of your brilliance.”
Time and Again (1951)
Now it seemed that this had been a self-sustained illusion he had nourished carefully to bolster a sense of his own importance.
A Choice of Gods (1972)
The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.
Time and Again (1951)
Memory and dust, he thought, link us to the past.
Time and Again (1951)
He had acted on an impulse, with no thought at all. The girl had asked protection and here she had protection, here nothing in the world ever could get at her.
Way Station (1963)
"Time means nothing to it," said Horseface, "nor does space. It is independent of both time and space except as it makes use of them."
Highway of Eternity (1986)
His mind went back to that strange business of the spiritual force and the even stranger machine which had been built eons ago, by means of which the galactic people were able to establish contact with the force.
Way Station (1963)
Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists...
Shakespeare's Planet (1976)
They hated them because the existence of the mutants makes them second-class humans, because they are Neanderthalers suddenly invaded by a bow and arrow people.
Ring Around the Sun (1954)
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.
A Heritage of Stars (1977)
Man was engaged in a mad scramble for power and knowledge, but nowhere is there any hint of what he meant to do with it once he had attained it.
City (1952)