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There was a smell in the air now. The hot, close, frightening small of mob; mob excited, hungry, dreaming blood and death. The primitive in Stark knew that sweaty acridity all too well.

— Leigh Brackett The Ginger Star (1974)

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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.”

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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.

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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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