Walter M. Miller Jr. Quotes

1923–1996 United States

Walter Michael Miller Jr. (23 January 1923 – 9 January 1996) was an American science fiction writer, most famous for his novel A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for best novel.

United States
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Science fiction authors
Short story writers

Also known as: Miller, Walter M., Walter M. Miller, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Walter Michael Miller, Jr., Walter Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz

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To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law — a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.

A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)

It was more than reflexive imitation, he decided. She was trying to communicate something. By the repetition, she was trying to convey the idea: I am somehow like you.
But she had only just now been born.

A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)

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