# Quote — George R. Stewart, Earth Abides

> A dead cat, it seemed, lay on the counter, but as he looked, it stirred to life and he realized that it had merely been lying, after the the habit of cats, in such a position that it looked dead. The cat looked at him with a kind of cold effrontery, as the duchess at the chambermaid. Ish felt uncomfortable, and had to remind himself that this was the way cats had always behaved.

- Author: [George R. Stewart](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-r-stewart.md)
- Book: [Earth Abides](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-r-stewart/earth-abides.md)
- Page: 30
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> What would be the use of all these books now? Why worry about one of them? Why worry about all the millions of them? There was no one left, now, to carry on. Books themselves, mere wood pulp and lampblack, were nothing—without a mind to use them.

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> What a strange thing then is this great civilization, that no sooner have men attained it than they seek to flee from it!

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> How then, once overthrown, shall this great civilization, except by renewed Forces and Pressures, ever come again?

p. 294 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-r-stewart/earth-abides/how-then-once.md)