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The words. I couldn’t understand the words. The only means of communication, and they are a deadly barrier.
Ahead of Time (1953)
Her hands came out of her sleeves. There was a rod of blinding silver in each.
The Dark World (1954)
The fire that had come from beyond the stars was harnessed.
Tamed — chained — by the flesh to which it had once, long ago, given life....
The Valley Of The Flame (1946)
We are all part of some cosmic pattern, and this pattern works toward good and not evil. It builds and does not destroy. So I shall go on in my search for a race where I can find kinship and happiness.
Ardath in The Creature from Beyond Infinity (1940)
The Face was painful to see. It was too intricate, too involved with emotions complex beyond our grasp.
The Time Axis (1949)
I believe in things I never used to.
The Dark World (1954)
I'm going forward. I know — because I went.
The Time Axis (1949)
He seemed to feel something like indulgent contempt for the rest of the world. It was all right, I suppose. Nobody had better reason. The man was a genius.
The Time Axis (1949)
Imponderable forces shifted when that cleavage took place. You and I know nothing about it, for it happened far beyond the perceptions of any sentient creature. But it happened. Oh yes, it happened.
The Time Axis (1949)
It took the Face of Ea — which I shall never be able to describe fully.
I saw it, though. I saw it...
The Time Axis (1949)
The two girls looked at one another, caught in the terrible, helpless problem of immaturity, the knowledge that the mores of the adult world are too complicated to understand, and that children must walk warily.
Adults are always right. They are an alien race.
Bypass to Otherness (1961)
“Oddly enough—” And here the devil sighed. “Oddly enough, those who make bargains with me never do have the capability to use their gifts. I suppose only inferior minds expect to get something for nothing. Yours is distinctly inferior.”
Ahead of Time (1953)
The stars glittered frostily overhead, unconcerned with the fate of Atlantis — stars that would be shining thousands of years hence when Atlantis was not even a memory.
The Spawn Of Dagon (1938)
Harding was elected because he promised normalcy. After war, men were tired. They wanted to crawl back into a 1912 womb. They didn’t want experiments that might upset their lives further.
Bypass to Otherness (1961)
“Forbid them to sing it.” But the minister’s voice was dubious.
“Ja, but can they be forbidden to think it? They always think of what is verboten. They can’t help it. It’s a basic human instinct.”
Bypass to Otherness (1961)
Beauty is almost wholly a matter of fashion; what is beautiful today would have been grotesque a couple of generations ago and will be grotesque a hundred years ahead. It will be worse than grotesque; it will be outmoded and therefore faintly ridiculous.
Vintage Season (1946)
I have drawn strength from the stars, and the cosmic sources beyond the universe. You know nothing of my power. It is enough — more than enough — to keep Atlantis steady on its foundation, impregnable against the attacks of Dagon's breed.
The Spawn Of Dagon (1938)
The race moves on. It has its human limitations. The tools we make have no limitations at all. When we educate ourselves to learn to handle those tools most efficiently we can go on to the next step, whatever it may be. Meanwhile there must be check and balance—rigid control.
The Time Axis (1949)
All these things were slipping away from him, in a clear, cold wisdom that came from beyond the stars. He envisioned man as a bit of animate clay moving fro a little while upon a ball of mud and stone and water that drifted through the void, through the darkness that would finally engulf it.
I could be as jittery as you if I wanted to. But I've studied history and literature. And architecture, and a lot of things. Just to balance this psycho work. There’s a lot more perfection in a Doric column than in you.
The Fairy Chessmen (1946)