Clifford D. Simak

Quotes

1. It would be three-dimensional chess with a million billion squares and a million pieces, and with the rules changing ever move.

   p. 135

2. 

   The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.

   p. 72

3. 

   I’m just a propagandist and a propagandist doesn’t have to know what he is talking about, just so he talks about it most convincingly.

   p. 124

4. 

   I have not long to live. I have lasted more than a man’s average allotted span, and while I still am hale and hearty, I know full well the hand of time, while it may miss a man at one reaping, will get him at the next.

   p. 107

5. 

   Sutton sensed resurrection and he fought against it, for death was so comfortable. Like a soft, warm bed. And resurrection was a strident, insistent, maddening alarm clock that shrilled across the predawn chill of a dreadful, frowzy room. Dreadful with its life and its bare reality and its sharp, sickening reminder that one must get up and walk into reality again.

   p. 143

6. 

   Dreams, she said. Broken dreams are bad enough. But the dream that has no hope...the dream that is doomed long before it’s broken, that’s the worst of all.

   p. 183

7. 

   There is mystery here, but a soft, sure mystery that is understood and only remains a mystery because I want it so. The mystery of the nighthawk against a darkening sky, the puzzle of the firefly along the lilac hedge.

   p. 6

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