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Oh, for the rebirth of an educational system where understanding was an essential part of knowledge.
Nova (1968)
“As time progresses,” Lump stated, “people learn. That’s the only hope.”
Empire Star (1966)
Bear in mind that the novel—no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective—is always a historical projection of its own time.
Nova (1968)
What real power can buy, of course, is anonymity.
Neveryóna (1983)
And who’s to say where life ceases and theater begins—
Triton (1976)
But it's always intriguing to discover the ways in which desire fuels the systems of the world.
The Mad Man (1994)
It’s a good idea, when people are curious, to give them something to sustain that curiosity—and direct it.
Neveryóna (1983)
To be morally upset about how other people take their sexual pleasure is surely the weirdest human quirk ever.
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)
Only a man afraid of freedom would want this power, who could conceive of wielding it. And that fear of freedom will turn him into a slave of this power.
The Jewels of Aptor (1962)
A lesson which history should have taught us thousands of years ago was finally driven home. No man can wield absolute power over other men and still retain his own mind.
The Jewels of Aptor (1962)
Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.
Triton (1976)
The army is just too easy and too simple: fight to the death for the cause is just.
City of a Thousand Suns (1965)
Origins are always constructs, always contouring ideological agendas.
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)
What makes a boy interesting does not make a man interesting.
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)
The audience’s performance is always more or less stochastic.
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)
It is far easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.
Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979)
The artist’s performance is always more or less aleatory.
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)
Men and women are less than a chromosome apart.
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)
The rich are always enamored of the ancient.
Nova (1968)
Young writers take that most communal object, language, and perform on it that most individual act, creation.
Neveryóna (1983)