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Quotes from The Flight of the Horse — Larry Niven

born 1938 United States

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Talking to the Council would be like shouting obscenities at a forest fire.

The Flight of the Horse (1973)

There’s always another problem behind the one you just solved. Does that mean that you should stop solving problems?

The Flight of the Horse (1973)

For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt.

The Flight of the Horse (1973)

But the horse ran on, daring Svetz with its eyes.
How to describe such motion? Svetz had never seen ballet. He knew how machinery moved, and this wasn’t it. All he could think of was a man and a woman making love. Slippery-smooth rhythmic motion, absolute single-minded purpose, motion for the pleasure of motion. It was terrible in its beauty, the flight of the horse.

The Flight of the Horse (1973)

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