Clifford D. Simak Short Quotes

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Beyond his own sure knowledge, he had not a shred of proof.

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Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth.

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Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

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McKay tells me that you went home sick, she said. Personally, I hope you don't survive.

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The old and the young, he thought. The old, who do not care; the young, who do not think.

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They are worse than the disinherited. They are not the has-beens, they are the never-weres.

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These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.

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It wouldn't be the truth, said Sutton.
That, said Trevor, doesn't have a thing to do with it.

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Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists...

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It's a wonder to me, said Adams sourly, that you don't simply melt down in the white heat of your brilliance.

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There have been moments when I also wasn't able to attach as much importance to football as it seemed to me I should.

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It would be three-dimensional chess with a million billion squares and a million pieces, and with the rules changing ever move.

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I'm just a propagandist and a propagandist doesn't have to know what he is talking about, just so he talks about it most convincingly.

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The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.

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"Much of what we see in the universe," said Hugo, "starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it."

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Propaganda, Trevor said. Let's call it psychology. You say a thing so often and so well that after a time everyone believes it. Even, finally, yourself.

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If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

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Dreams, she said. Broken dreams are bad enough. But the dream that has no hope... the dream that is doomed long before it's broken, that's the worst of all.

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"This is the core of the galaxy," Horseface said. "This is the very center of everything there is. A huge black hole eating up the galaxy. The end of everything."

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A wrongness persisted, a sense of aberration, some factor not quite right, the feeling of a corner. But Boone could not pin it down; there seemed no way to reach it.

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"They changed," said Enid, "from corporeal beings, from biological beings, to incorporeal beings, immaterial, pure intelligences. They now are ranged in huge communities on crystal lattices..."

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"We're very close to immortal, you know. The time mechanism keeps it that way."
"No, I hadn't known," said Boone.
"Inside the time bubble we do not age. We age only when we are outside of it."

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