David Brin Short Quotes

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The Union will awaken. It always has. We always will.

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It was better to imagine a sacrifice being for something.

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What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

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Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.

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You think I'm kidding? the pilot asked.
No, we think you're crazy.

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The man talked, but somehow nothing he said seemed to make any sense.

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Petals floating by, Drift through my woman's hand, As she remembers me.

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Freedom was wonderful beyond relief. But with it came that bitch, Duty.

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He tried again, but their sullen, rural obstinacy was impervious to logic.

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Patience is fine, but I'm not going to stop asking the Universe to make sense!

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A hallmark of sanity, Alex, is the courage to face even unpleasant points of view.

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Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe.

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Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.

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Beware of assumptions that seem obvious in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.

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From you, my boy, I expect no less than the completely preposterous and utterly calamitous.

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Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.

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We can't save the world without food. Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

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A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

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Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view.

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The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.

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After all, he muttered, what can they do to shake the confidence of a fellow who's got delusions of adequacy?

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He was, after all, a diplomat, and understood that the best and firmest deals are based on open self-interest.

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Prison for the crime of puberty—that was how secondary school had seemed, when he really thought back on it.

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Where there is mind, there is always solution, Keneenk taught. All problems contained the elements of their answer.

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All legends must be based on lies, Gordon realized. We exaggerate, and even come to believe the tales, after a while.

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A sane being wished for peace and serenity, not to be the mortar in which the ingredients of destiny are finely ground.

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Nation states are archaic leftovers from when each man feared the tribe over the hill, an attitude we can't afford anymore.

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Had I been wrong, this would still have been the honorable thing to do.
I am very glad, however, to find out that I was right.

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What was it like, he wondered, to care about something so passionately? He suspected it made her somehow more alive than he was.

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He managed to lie by implication while speaking words that were the literal truth, a skill he had grown good at, if not proud of.

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