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Dinoli had to clawed himself to first rank in public relations by sheer exertion, coupled with judicious backstabbing.
We, the Marauders (1958)
“Do I chatter?”
“Should I be honest or should I be tactful?”
Thorns (1967)
If the Government was going to all this trouble to keep people calm, then there had to be something big to worry about. That much was axiomatic.
Those Who Watch (1967)
His name would fade from the front pages in a few days; he knew too much about communications media to believe that his current notoriety would last.
We, the Marauders (1958)
The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.
Hot Times in Magma City (1995)
He did not consider the possibility of his own death. At his age, death was still something that happened to other people.
The Man in the Maze (1969)
I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful?
Nightwings (1968)
Why should we become like you? We pride ourselves on not being like you.
The World Inside (1971)
The priest had once told Rosita Estancia that her younger brother Charley was a damned soul, and Charley had found out about it. In a way, he was rather flattered.
Those Who Watch (1967)
The style in which it was written told me much: I found that a man who cannot phrase his thoughts cleanly on paper probably has no thoughts worth notice.
A Time of Changes (1971)
Evidently a lot of people were yelling “Flying saucer!” tonight, because the announcers were going to great pains to insist that it was nothing but a meteor.
Those Who Watch (1967)
Never pass by a chance to shut up.
The Emperor and the Maula (2007)
She loaned him books. Worlds were revealed to him: worlds piled on worlds, worlds without end.
A Piece of the Great World (2005)
So it is with all the great leaders: the commodity they have to sell is personality. Mere ideas can be left to lesser men.
The Stochastic Man (1975)
“Moas aren’t very bright,” Gracchus answers. “That’s one good reason why they became extinct.”
Born with the Dead (1974)
I don't know, Mattison thinks. That’s cool. I don't know, and I hereby give myself permission not to know, and to hell with it.
Hot Times in Magma City (1995)
I don't think I've gone insane. If I’m seen enough to be worried about my sanity, how crazy can I be? Or am I just fooling myself?
Our Lady of the Sauropods (1980)
How intricately our loins are linked to our minds, and how tricky a thing it is when we embrace a woman while pretending she is another!
A Time of Changes (1971)
Nothing was his business, these days. When a man had no business, he had to appoint himself to some. So he was here to do research, ostensibly, which is to say to snoop and spy.
Downward to the Earth (1970)
I felt an unmanly pity for the beasts we slew, for I fear I don’t really have the killer instinct. I don’t have the starving instinct either, though, and so I fired away.
The Gate of Worlds (1967)