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Quotes from The Wailing Asteroid — Murray Leinster

1896–1975 United States

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For once, no eminent figure assumed the undignified pose involved in standing on one’s dignity.

The Wailing Asteroid (1960)

“It isn’t reasonable!” insisted Holmes. “It doesn’t make sense!”
“The question,” observed Burke, “isn’t whether it makes sense, but whether it’s fact.”

The Wailing Asteroid (1960)

They raise the question of whether I’ve been crazy, and am suddenly sane, or whether I’ve been sane up to now, and have suddenly gone crazy.

The Wailing Asteroid (1960)

There was bitter resistance to the idea. It was demanded that Burke justify his views in a more reasonable way than by mere demonstration that they worked.

The Wailing Asteroid (1960)

As a young man he was considered promising. If he had been interested in such matters, he might have had a moderately successful career in politics, as politics was practiced in his nation. But he liked things. Real things.

The Wailing Asteroid (1960)

Attribution

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