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They were a magnet in the void; evil and all the sad misuses of power collected around them.

seeing himself infected by the wild race consciousness that was moving the human universe toward chaos.

So there was a species of logic to all of this but it kicked the performers out of the nest into chaos.

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing. There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader.

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion,' Leto said. 'Not to speak of its importance in philosophy.Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

Your projections of logic onto all affairs is unnatural, but suffered to continue for its usefulness.

Paul hesitated. There'd been no dwarf in the vision, but all else remained identical.

What . . . does he plan?" "The Golden Path. He'll explain it to you later.

He said that you were the ultimate artist at probing the soul, your own soul first.

That witch mother of his is giving him the deep training, certainly.

I am a theater of processes, he told himself. I am a prey to the imperfect vision, to the race consciousness and its terrible purpose.

It is said…." What a curious speech mannerism they have here. If they only knew what it reveals about their dependence on superstitions.

action is illusory. Like appointing a committee to study a problem. The more people on the committee, the more preconceptions applied to the problem.

Putnam increased the first print run to 75,000 copies, more than any science fiction hardcover printing in history.

Oh, I don't imply that I've made my father's mistake and peered into the future with a glass of spice.

There were forty Fremen—she and Paul made it forty-two.

They shall not escape their fate through powers of reason! Reason arises from pride that a man may not know in this way when he has done evil.

Where Thufir Hawat goes, death and deceit follow." "You malign him." "Malign? I praise him. Death and deceit are our only hopes now.

the face was predatory: thin, full of sharp angles and panes.

It was the Fremen who took off in that captured 'thopter, Hawat thought. He deliberately sacrificed himself to get that carrier. Great Mother! What are these Fremen?

the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

quantum mechanics, general relativity, and the Standard Model of particle physics.

Samuel Beckett was saying, in a new biography, that he could remember being in the womb, which, of course, is a bit far-fetched. But he's an Irishman, so nothing's too far-fetched.