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He considered horoscopes as silly as spectacles on a cow.
Between Planets (1951)
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it’s done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
Between Planets (1951)
Don, have you been dealing with a booklegger?
Between Planets (1951)
He had let himself be bulldozed by the odds against him. He promised himself never again to pay any attention to the odds, but only to the issues.
Between Planets (1951)
He gave up and went back to loafing, found that he could sleep all right in the afternoons but that the practice kept him awake at night.
Between Planets (1951)
He was still having trouble readjusting. Wars were something you studied, not something that actually happened.
Between Planets (1951)
She grabbed him by both ears and kissed him quickly, then ran away.
Don stared after her, rubbing his mouth. Girls, he reflected, were much odder than dragons. Probably another race entirely.
Between Planets (1951)
Don took it and said, “Uh, thanks! That’s awfully kind of you. I’ll pay it back, first chance.”
“Instead, pay it forward to some other brother who needs it.”
Between Planets (1951)