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Quotes from Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home — James Tiptree Jr.

1915–1987 United States

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11 quotes

Eerie blue, the wide old eyes reminded him of a place he had never seen.

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Because dying, any time, is an experience you don’t survive.

Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home (1973)

Somewhere in his head a couple of neurones twitched, but they didn’t connect.

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If it worked it would be like trying to wipe your eye with a blowtorch.

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What if a person is sure of his identity but it isn’t his identity?

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People, of course, seemed to need also to talk and talk, which was a pity because their talk was mostly without meaning.

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He heard himself humming and decided to lock the whole thing into autopilot. No matter what shape that computer was in it would be saner than he was.

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You can understand why a system would seek information—but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?

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Did you know you get clobbered for calling a polyglot a linguist?

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The American black who goes to Kenya often discovers he is an American first and an African second, no matter what they did to him in Newark.

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She sounded sane as soap.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Tiptree Jr. (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.