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Michael Bishop Quotes

1945–2023 United States

Michael Lawson Bishop (November 12, 1945 – November 13, 2023) was an award-winning American science fiction and fantasy writer.

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Tiglathpileser was a human, it’s rumored. And Caligula. So were a whole host of twentieth-century tyrants. So presumably were the brain-dead idiots who turned the Earth into a treeless detention camp. Being human, I’m afraid, doesn’t automatically confer demigod status on anyone.

Cri de Coeur (1994)

I have thought a little about a telepathic community, and I have decided that it would most likely create either a thoroughly paranoiac or a thoroughly homogeneous unit of individuals. Complete suspicion and hostility in the one instance, total harmony and concord in the other. I do not like either alternative.

A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975)

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