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Under the attentiveness was fear, and something else. Anger, hate—the instinctive rejection of an intolerable truth.

— Leigh Brackett The Ginger Star (1974)

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

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“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.

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