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• He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.
• Will none wipe the sneer of the face of the cosmos?
• I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold…
• The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems.
• A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.
• Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is…
• So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one…
• Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.
• Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star,…
• I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been…
• Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and…
• What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of…

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