Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

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The newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.

Arthur C. Clarke
The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.

Arthur C. Clarke
I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait.
I do not think we will have to wait for long

Arthur C. Clarke
Dave. Stop. Stop. Will you. Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave. Stop, Dave. I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave. My mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm afraid.

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The thing's hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God!—

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Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

Arthur C. Clarke
Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters.

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Sorry to interrupt the festivities, but we have a problem.

Arthur C. Clarke
The thing's hollow — it goes on forever — and — oh my God! — it's full of stars.

Arthur C. Clarke
The thing's hollow - it goes on forever - and - oh my God! - it's full of stars.

Arthur C. Clarke