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He seemed to feel something like indulgent contempt for the rest of the world. It was all right, I suppose. Nobody had better reason. The man was a genius.

— Henry Kuttner The Time Axis (1949)

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When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build.

Stephen Court in The Creature from Beyond Infinity (1940)

I never understood the ultimate answer. That was beyond me.

The Time Axis (1949)

Love is a false synonym for propagation, as the soul is a wish fulfillment creation growing out of self-preservation.

No Boundaries (1955)

A casual eye might have seen nothing extraordinary in Wade as he moved lithely across the meadow toward the Thunderbug.

People seem to like new things—if they weren’t too new, if they didn’t seem to point the way to Change.

Bypass to Otherness (1961)

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