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“Genius such as yours is a genetic gift.”
“So I have heard from my parents.”

— Norman Spinrad The Void Captain's Tale (1983)

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All of a sudden the house lights go out and it’s black as a network executive’s heart.

The Big Flash (1969)

Any attempt at willful ignorance would now be futile or worse; the only talisman against excessive knowledge that might have puissance would be more knowledge.

The Void Captain's Tale (1983)

To become aware of a controlling process is to transcend the determinism of that process.

What moral obligation do you have to those who willfully refuse to open their eyes and deem you mad for seeing?

The Void Captain's Tale (1983)

The appreciation of the connoisseur is the highest pleasure of the artiste.

The Void Captain's Tale (1983)

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Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

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Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

Louis Althusser Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)

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