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But truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As

Truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As dangerous as it's been beneficent.

But its absurd to let yourself get into a state like this. Simply absurd,' she repeated. 'And what about? A man - one man.

That's the spirit I like, said the Director

our world is not the same as Othello's world. . . you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now.

wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behaviour. For that there must be words, but words without reason. In brief, hypnopaedia.

Pero no tienen ningún mensaje. —Sí, el mensaje consiste en emitir una gran cantidad de sensaciones agradables para el público. —Los argumentos han sido escritos por algún idiota.

In the red darkness glinted innumerable rubies.

Children?—that would be the most desperate experiment of all. The most desperate, and perhaps the only one having any chance of being successful.

Like chickens drinking, the students lifted their eyes towards the distant ceiling.

The gravitation of sin to sorrow is as certain as that of the earth to the sun...

The Deputy Sub-Bursar heard no more; he had slipped out of the vestibule and was looking up a number in the telephone book.

But sometimes," she said with a smile, "it's eternity that miraculously breaks into time—even into dinnertime. Good-bye." She waved her hand and was gone.

In the same way, the reader of a book who happens to be out of tune with the author's prevailing mood will be bored to death by the things that were written with the greatest enthusiasm. Or else, like the far-away correspondent, he may seize on something which for you was not essential, to make it of the core and kernel of the book.

Sex is often centre stage in utopias and dystopias – who can do what, with which set of genital organs, and with whom, being one of humanity's main preoccupations.

What old, earthy, Panic rite came to extinction here? he wondered.

He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.

The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!

This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.

I get fairly frantic when I contemplate the idiocy of these two goats [Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard].

So descending into Hell was just a waste of time?' cried Esteban.

According to the storyteller, the wedding very nearly took place, but at the most important moment, a group of perjurers participating in the case suddenly went on strike, demanding a pay increase.

He wasn't much cut out for serious conversations. And a goodbye is a serious conversation.

Qualsiasi grande può regredire a inutile comparsa se una mutazione cambia il punto di vista e rende difficile annoverarlo fra i profeti dal nuovo mondo. [...] Non è tanto una questione di forza della singola opera e del singolo autore: è la prospettiva che detta la regola: poi, solo dopo, interviene quella forza, a orientare i giudizi.