"A writer should not run around with a……" — Stanislaw Lem
"A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before."
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Stanislaw Lem
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53 Quotes by Stanislaw Lem
Stanislaw Lem has 53 quotes on this site.
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We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf.
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A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
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To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
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You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
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There are no answers, only choices,
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Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible,…
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When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the stars were lined up…
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Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life; yet here…
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Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.
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Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery,…
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Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.
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Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who…
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More Countrymen Quotes
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The Fourth of July-memorable in the history of our nation as the great day of independence to its countrymen-had no…
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
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Comrades ! You have voluntarily accepted a mission that is the noblest that the human mind can conceive of. For…
— Subhas Chandra Bose
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If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are…
— Charles William Eliot
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While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and…
— Ronald Reagan
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I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than…
— Thomas Jefferson
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[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style:…
— Thomas Sprat
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Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest…
— Bertrand Russell
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The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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