28 quotes
Beauty is beautiful because it is doomed to perish!
The Dark Design (1977)
Tell me, is this true or is it just one of those tales that people like to make up to worry others?
The Dark Design (1977)
Imagination was the great cozener of the past.
The Dark Design (1977)
I, who hated the fat, smug, oily, stinking, ignorant, hypocritical, parasitical priests! And their unfeeling, merciless, cruel God!
The Dark Design (1977)
Suddenly, he was weeping. The tears were for the good things that had been or might have been, for the bad things that had been but should not have been.
The Dark Design (1977)
Then she warned her self—for the ten thousandth time?—that she must not be as guilty of prejudice as others. Find the facts first and study them before judgment.
The Dark Design (1977)
“We’re not that stupid!”
“No, but you’re that impulsive. Which is a form of stupidity.”
The Dark Design (1977)
TV, the worst thing that had happened to the twentieth century. After the atom bomb and overpopulation, of course.
The Dark Design (1977)
But he’s sincere. Which doesn’t mean he knows what he’s talking about.
The Dark Design (1977)
“What does that mean?”
“I don’t know, but it sounds deep. I’ll think up an explanation later.”
The Dark Design (1977)
Nightmare in paradise. Or what could have been paradise if so many human beings did not insist on make in a hell of it.
The Dark Design (1977)
He knew from experience that “self-defense” could mean whatever a person or group wanted it to mean.
The Dark Design (1977)
He seemed to get along with just about everybody. Which, in my book, makes him suspect.
The Dark Design (1977)
Chance, another word for destiny.
The Dark Design (1977)
Dreams haunted The Riverworld.
The Dark Design (1977)
Was destiny anything but chance? Probably. But the odds against this happening on Earth were infinity to one.
The Dark Design (1977)
As for the Bible, it was a book, and all books told the truth in the sense that their authors believed they were writing a kind of truth.
The Dark Design (1977)
Peter would find out that that was superstition, a reasoning from effect to cause, totally invalid. It was in a class with the belief that if you eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich while you were sitting in the outhouse, the devil would get you.
The Dark Design (1977)
The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in the stars but in our lousy genes. Or in the failure of one’s conquest of one’s self.
The fault, dear Brutus, is in our fear of knowing ourselves.
The Dark Design (1977)
The religions of Jesus, Paul, and Buddha had started to degenerate before their founders were cold in their graves. Just as St. Francis’ order had begun corrupting before its founder’s body was rotten.
The Dark Design (1977)