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Quotes from Neverness — David Zindell

born 1952 United States

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12 quotes

To be what you want to be: isn't this the essence of being human?

Neverness (1988)

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

Neverness (1988)

For us humanity was a distant goal toward which all men were moving, whose image no one knew, whose laws were nowhere written down.

Neverness (1988)

Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained.

Neverness (1988)

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.

Neverness (1988)

Any robot sufficiently intelligent to clean dishes is too intelligent to clean dishes.

Neverness (1988)

What's beautiful is that a creator can be astonished by his own creations.

Neverness (1988)

The universe is a womb for the genesis of gods.

Neverness (1988)

"All living things are afraid to die."
"No, you're exactly wrong, the only truly alive beings are those unafraid to die."

Neverness (1988)

Oh, where does the light go when the light goes out? (p88)

Neverness (1988)

The secret of life is more life.

Neverness (1988)

I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life.

Neverness (1988)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Zindell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.