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Quotes from Thomas the Proclaimer — Robert Silverberg

born 1935 United States

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Anything big and strange always upsets the people in power.

Thomas the Proclaimer (1972)

May I be struck dead for saying this if I don’t mean it with all my heart: I wish the Lord and all his prophets would disappear and leave us alone. We’ve had enough religion for one season.

Thomas the Proclaimer (1972)

As we zoomed along on the Chaos Express, I was sometimes tempted toward godliness the way the godly are tempted toward sin. But my love of divine reason left me no way to opt for the irrational.

Thomas the Proclaimer (1972)

They could pray, they had the illusion that a divine plan governed this best of all possible worlds, while I was left in bleak, stormy limbo, dismally aware that the universe makes no sense and that the only universal truth there is is that Entropy Eventually Wins.

Thomas the Proclaimer (1972)

Attribution

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