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Quotes from Gandalara Cycle — Randall Garrett

1927–1987 United States

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To crave power is to be ruled by madness.

Gandalara Cycle (1981)

No, I had kept an open mind about reincarnation—in spite of those people, not because of them.

Gandalara Cycle (1981)

What does it matter? I asked myself. If you’re writing a fairy tale, don’t quibble over talking bears.

Gandalara Cycle (1981)

Philosophically, Nirvana and the Final Blackout were equally unappealing to me. Reincarnation—well, it seemed like wishful thinking to me. The defining factor for my entire attitude toward an afterlife of any kind was the total absence of objective evidence.

Gandalara Cycle (1981)

The “remembered” lives had always been exciting and ended in murder, execution, or dramatic suicide. Not one of them had been a potato farmer who died quietly in his bed after seventy years of monotonous hard work. I had heard the argument that only violent personalities survived intact, but I frankly saw more late-night television than actual memory in the “past lives” I heard retold.

Gandalara Cycle (1981)

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