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Once the spark was struck the story would spread like wildfire, and would be in the papers in next to no time. The Director had never had any cause to think highly of newspaper reporters, particularly of their scientific accuracy.

— Fred Hoyle The Black Cloud (1957)

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Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

Losing power, utterly and completely, is the most dreadful prospect that a politician can think of. It overshadows everything else.

The Black Cloud (1957)

It’s only too easy to read your own state of mind into what other people say.

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The two men were mentally too dissimilar for more than a half hour of conversation between them to be possible.

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All people are the same, pretty well irrespective of color, creed, or the way they happen to grunt out their language.

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