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> [“The folk of Hell-Knows-Where by default still thought of themselves as Americans.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-baxter/the-folk-of-hell-knows-where-by-default-still-thought-of-themselves/)

[Stephen Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-baxter/)

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## More by Stephen Baxter

> [We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-baxter/we-seem-to-be-young-in-a-very-old-galaxy-we-re-like-kids-tiptoeing/)

[Stephen Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-baxter/)

> [“Look, whatever hayseed laws you pass in Who-Knows-What -" "Hell-Knows-Where." "Don't amount to a hill of beans back here, as your type might say.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-baxter/look-whatever-hayseed-laws-you-pass-in-who-knows-what-hell-knows/)

[Stephen Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-baxter/)

> [“She was capable of suffering – that was the price of sentience.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-baxter/she-was-capable-of-suffering-that-was-the-price-of-sentience/)

[Stephen Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-baxter/)

> [“This is what I have learned, Malenfant. This is how it is, how it was, how it came to be.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-baxter/this-is-what-i-have-learned-malenfant-this-is-how-it-is-how-it-was/)

[Stephen Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-baxter/)

> [“I have a vision of a Galaxy overrun by mankind from Core to rim. Of four hundred billion stars each enslaved to the rhythm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-baxter/i-have-a-vision-of-a-galaxy-overrun-by-mankind-from-core-to-rim-of/)

[Stephen Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-baxter/)

> [“Something had changed. History resumed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-baxter/something-had-changed-history-resumed/)

[Stephen Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-baxter/)

> [“ Per ardua ad astra. Through adversity to the stars.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-baxter/per-ardua-ad-astra-through-adversity-to-the-stars/)

[Stephen Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-baxter/)

> [A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-baxter/a-citizen-of-the-roman-empire-for-example-would-have-placed-less/)

[Stephen Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-baxter/)

> [The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-baxter/the-long-earth-is-bountiful-but-not-forgiving/)

[Stephen Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-baxter/)

> [“Every door I pass is one way. So I may as well look around, and see what there is beyond the next door, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-baxter/every-door-i-pass-is-one-way-so-i-may-as-well-look-around-and-see/)

[Stephen Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-baxter/)

> [Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-baxter/imagine-god-inside-your-computer-your-phone-everyone-else-s-computer/)

[Stephen Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-baxter/)

> [“We are all creatures of logic, at root. Of little switches turning on and off in our heads, metaphorically speaking.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-baxter/we-are-all-creatures-of-logic-at-root-of-little-switches-turning-on/)

[Stephen Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-baxter/)

> [“...the story of colonial-era America, rerun across an infinite frontier...All of which was fine, until the day you needed root-canal dentistry. Or your e-book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-baxter/the-story-of-colonial-era-america-rerun-across-an-infinite-frontier/)

[Stephen Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-baxter/)

> [Authority. The antithesis of science.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-baxter/authority-the-antithesis-of-science/)

[Stephen Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-baxter/)

> [“Colonists of, ah, Per Ardua, meet your autonomous colonisation unit!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-baxter/colonists-of-ah-per-ardua-meet-your-autonomous-colonisation-unit/)

[Stephen Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-baxter/)

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