Quotes from Paradise — Mike Resnick
1942–2020 United States
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8 quotes
It takes a lot out of a man to civilize a world, and it’s self-defeating in the end, because the kind of man who does it doesn’t want to see the results.
Paradise (1989)
Gabriel Pickett looked like any farmer anywhere—lean, hard, and overworked.
Paradise (1989)
I decided that the only way to judge him was to balance the good he had done against the evil—and by that criterion, he came out better than most Men.
Paradise (1989)
You know, animals can recover from most disasters, including poaching—but start destroying their habitat and you’ve written their epitaph.
Paradise (1989)
“That sounds very cynical,” I noted…
“You say it’s cynical, I say it’s practical. Either way, it’s sincere.”
Paradise (1989)
And there was never any question about coming back: no one ever goes back to Peponi. Whatever it was that brought you there has got to change before you leave, and once it has changed, you don’t want to see what it’s become.
Paradise (1989)
Giving them the privileges of citizens of the Republic doesn’t make them Republic citizens. They’d have been better off if we’d never opened this planet up, but we did, and I’m not about to feel guilty because of something that occurred more than half a century before I was even born.
Paradise (1989)
She wrote very selectively of the Peponi she remembered, emphasizing those aspects that she found praiseworthy and ignoring the less savory events of her life. As Hardwycke had put it during one of our conversations, every line of the book was true, but the book itself was one big lie.
Paradise (1989)