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Quotes from The Sunborn — Gregory Benford

born 1941 United States

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13 quotes

Would an alien outsider judge America’s performance by My Lai and Wounded Knee or by Lincoln and Jefferson?

The Sunborn (2005)

After weeks of indoor work it actually felt good to be doing something—clean, direct, muscles and mind.

The Sunborn (2005)

Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

The Sunborn (2005)

Definitions, her grandmother once said, had to be like a fat man’s belt—big enough to cover the subject but elastic enough to allow for change.

The Sunborn (2005)

Anyway, the Shanna woman was abrasive, self-obsessed, smug—and those were her good points. Julia suspected that in a pinch the woman might also be careless, the one sin reality never forgave.

The Sunborn (2005)

Nobody out here was going to find an alternative here to Earth’s tiresome clash of selfish individualisms and stifling collectivisms.

The Sunborn (2005)

Puzzled frowns in the audience. Science reporters they might be, but high school chemistry was going a bit too deep for most.

The Sunborn (2005)

Better be a bit more diplomatic. Translation: cover your scientific ass.

The Sunborn (2005)

He’s an order of magnitude better than mere diplomats. He’s a conniver.

The Sunborn (2005)

None of the above. That’s often the right answer, and bugger the exams.

The Sunborn (2005)

Not sure. When don’t know, do experiment.

The Sunborn (2005)

She had always admired the way bureaucracies spontaneously produced leaden prose, blandly sliding from the mouths of people who absolutely believed everything they said.

The Sunborn (2005)

There was more known, but always more to be known.
Yes, she thought, and the unknown can masquerade as the unknowable.

The Sunborn (2005)

Attribution

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