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Quotes from Dinosaur Beach — Keith Laumer

1925–1993 United States

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One nice thing about working with a piece of machinery: you don’t waste time trying to justify your actions.

Dinosaur Beach (1971)

Sure—that’s the concept. It wouldn’t be the first concept that had to be modified in the face of experience.

Dinosaur Beach (1971)

An idea was beginning to get through, and he wasn’t liking it very well.

Dinosaur Beach (1971)

Don’t go female on me now. We don’t have time for nonsense.

Dinosaur Beach (1971)

The Karg looked at her with the interested expression of a coroner who sees his customer twitch.

Dinosaur Beach (1971)

It was a nasty little village, poverty-stricken, ugly, hostile, much like little towns in all times and climes.

Dinosaur Beach (1971)

Rules had been made, and even enforced from time to time. When the first absolute prohibition of time meddling came along, it was already far too late.

Dinosaur Beach (1971)

Too late, I realized how I had trapped myself. I had let sleep in as a guest, and death had slipped through the door.

Dinosaur Beach (1971)

Less than total control is no control at all. You will obey my instructions, Mr. Ravel. In every detail. Or I will scrap the project.

Dinosaur Beach (1971)

Attribution

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