Leigh Brackett Quotes

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The mountains dwindled away into hills covered with a dark, stunted scrub. Beyond them the land flattened out to the horizon, a treeless immensity of white and gray-green, a spongy mossiness flecked with a million icy ponds. The wind blew, sometimes hard, sometimes harder.

Leigh Brackett
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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I can't tell you if the stories are true. Men lie without meaning to. They talk as if they had been part of a thing that happened to someone they never knew and only heard of by sixth remove.

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If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will.

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Stark said wearily, I don't think you understand. Normally he was tolerant of tribal fancies, but he felt no great tenderness for the Outdwellers. The stars are already defiled. They're only suns, like that one over your head. They have worlds around them, like this one under your feet. People live on those worlds, people who never heard of Outdwellers or their footling goddess. And the starships fly between them. It's all going on out there, this second as you stand here, and nothing you can do will stop it.

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The man who doesn't fear, doesn't live long. I fear everything.

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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.

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Stark did not like them. There was a touch of madness in them, born of the long dark and the too-long-held faith.

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There's never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that the person doing it didn't think he was fully justified. That's a mental trick called rationalizing, and it's done the human race more harm than anything else you can name.

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Aren't you even curious? he asked. A million worlds out there with more wonders than I could tell you in a million years, and you don't even want to ask a question?

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Better to make haste slowly than not at all, said Amnir sententiously.

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With any luck. Stark smiled cynically. Not that he did not believe in luck. Rather, he had found it to be an uncertain ally.

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Under the attentiveness was fear, and something else. Anger, hate—the instinctive rejection of an intolerable truth.

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