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“Hell, how do you think the human race ever learned anything, except by trial and error?”
“But it all takes such a long, long time,” said Len.”
“Everything takes a long time. Birthing takes nine months, and dying takes you all the rest of your life, and what are you complaining about, anyway?”

— Leigh Brackett The Long Tomorrow (1955)

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The man who doesn’t fear, doesn’t live long. I fear everything.

The Ginger Star (1974)

“Will it always stay like this?”
“Nothing,” said Hostetter, “ever stays always like anything.”

The Long Tomorrow (1955)

You can’t destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive.

The Long Tomorrow (1955)

Knowledge is not like sin. There is no mystical escape from it.

The Long Tomorrow (1955)

Invisibility is a condition of godhead. If folk could see them, they would know the truth, and the Lords Protector would cease to be divine.

The Ginger Star (1974)

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