“It was not the site of the earth which surprised him – it was the smell. … This earth and air smelled alive. There… — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
“We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire...” — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
“Was that what people learned between the stars? To care for other people very much indeed and to spring upon them only to reveal… — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
“There is no call for you to get tragic about it. Tragedy is easy enough to contrive. And if you want to be tragic,… — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
“Joan commented, upon sentence, "My body is your property, but my love is not. My love is my own, and I shall love you… — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
“He looked at his dry old hand and it seemed to him that in this atmosphere, he had himself become more reptilian than human.… — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
“The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters.” — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
“Chang nodded sagely. “My father insisted on it. He said, ‘You may be proud of being a scanner. I am sorry you are not… — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
“... crowding together to see something which would ease the boredom of perfection and time.” — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
“At sixteen Helen was already famous, and at seventeen already forgotten, and very much alone.” — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
“It was all of this: The beat and the heat and the neat repeat of the notes which poured from the congohelium—metal never made… — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
“She is a cat," he thought. "That's all she is—a cat!" But that was not how his mind saw her—quick beyond all dreams of… — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
“She warned him, kindly enough, about manners when he forgot the simple ceremonies of eating which everyone knew, such as standing up to unfold… — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share Image
