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One thing you learn fast in the munitions business is that it’s a very good idea to stay off battlefields.

— James Blish The Day After Judgment (1971)

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Never assume that any fact is useless until it is so proven.

I suppose you burned the library—barbarians always do.

A Style in Treason (1970)

He wore the expression of a man who has heard all this before, and is not enjoying it any better the second time.

The Day After Judgment (1971)

Sam was too good a scientist to let that hope creep into his hypothesizing.

Giants in the Earth (1952)

It isn’t every composer who can premier his own last opera posthumously.

A Work of Art (1956)

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