“I for one refuse to believe that an enterprise so well conceived, so scrupulously produced, and so widely loved can stay boneyarded for long. And I have 1,898 letters from people who don't believe it either.” — James Blish Copy Share Image
In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small! — James Blish Copy Share Image
“The boundary between the real and the unreal had been let down in Foote's mind, and between the comings and goings of the cloud-shadows and the dark errands of the ghosts there was no longer any way of making a selection. He had entered the cobwebby borderland between the human and the animal, where nothing is ever more than half… — james blish Copy Share
Credit . . . is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man. — James Blish Copy Share Image
“I expect that in the long run, when we get right down to the fundamental stuff of the universe, we’ll find that there’s nothing there at all—just nothings moving no-place through no-time. On the day that that happens, I’ll have God and you will not—otherwise there’ll be no difference between us.” — James Blish Copy Share
“[T]he end cannot justify the means; but if there are no other means, and the end is necessary...” — James Blish Copy Share Image
“[A]ll knowledge goes through both stages, the annunciation out of noise into fact, and the disintegration back into noise again. The process involved was… — James Blish Copy Share Image
“She was right. Peace was the way. She was right. But at the wrong time.” — James Blish Copy Share Image
But now the shots began—not many, but one shot is a fusillade if there have been no shots before. — James Blish Copy Share Image
“We inhabit two universes, then, One is the universe inside our skulls - our viewpoint universe, as it were.” — James Blish Copy Share Image
Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that's what pleases me. — James Blish Copy Share Image
“I for one refuse to believe that an enterprise so well conceived, so scrupulously produced, and so widely loved can stay boneyarded for long.… — James Blish Copy Share Image
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