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Quotes from In Alien Flesh — Gregory Benford

born 1941 United States

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Trouble comes looking for you if you’re a fool.

In Alien Flesh (1986)

“You know, my dear, you’re wrong that suffering ennobles people.” She’d stopped to massage her hip, wincing. “It simply makes one cross.”

In Alien Flesh (1986)

But the answers come when they will, one piece at a time.

In Alien Flesh (1986)

The role of boredom in human history is underrated.

In Alien Flesh (1986)

Talkers never acted when they could talk.

In Alien Flesh (1986)

Thunder impresses, but it’s lightning does the work.

In Alien Flesh (1986)

Must admit it felt good. First time in years anybody ever admitted I was right.

In Alien Flesh (1986)

Nothing could be sure it was itself the original. So the only intelligent course lay in enjoying whatever life a being felt—living like a mortal, in the moment.

In Alien Flesh (1986)

Every age is known by its pleasures, Fielding reads from the library readout. The twentieth introduced two: high speed and hallucinogenic drugs. Both proved dangerous in the long run, which made them even more interesting.

In Alien Flesh (1986)

He went to Los Angeles to do the work even though he hated the city; it was full of happy homogeneous people without structure or direction. While on the bus to work, it seemed to him Los Angeles went on long after it had already made its point.

In Alien Flesh (1986)

As Kurt Vonnegut pointed out in his first novel, Player Piano, some people love problem-solving and tinkering—and that is the final, irreducible driver of human history. Wars and faiths and leaders come and go, but the problem-solvers’ slow, steady work is the fulcrum upon which history turns.

In Alien Flesh (1986)

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