“ For it was authority that turned men suspicious and stern-faced. Authority and responsibility which made them not themselves, but a sort of corporate body that tried to think as a corporate body rathe… Clifford D. Simak
“ You still could go to some industry or some university or the government and if you could persuade them you had something on the ball—why, then, they might put up the cash after cutting themselves in… Clifford D. Simak
“ Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe. Clifford D. Simak
“ Has it ever occurred to you that business as you think of it may have outlived its usefulness? Business has made its contribution and the world moves on. Business is just another dodo. . . . Clifford D. Simak
“ I can't go back, said Towser. Nor I, said Fowler. They would turn me back into a dog, said Towser. And me, said Fowler, back into a man. Clifford D. Simak
“ We have fallen on hard times of the spirit, with many of the people more concerned with fear of evil than contemplation of the good. Clifford D. Simak
“ It's just a bow and arrow, but it's not a laughing matter. It might have been at one time, but history takes the laugh out of many things. If the arrow is a joke, so is the atom bomb, so is the sweep… Clifford D. Simak
“ The whole procedure of his thinking, Jason knew, was an imbecilic exercise; there was no compelling reason for him to seek an answer. And yet his mind bored on and on and he could not stop it, hanging… Clifford D. Simak
“ But the bars that held you, the bars that kept you in were the luxury and soft living. It is hard to walk out on a thing like that Clifford D. Simak
“ What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which the… Clifford D. Simak
“ And that day the cultural god of science had shone a bit less brightly, had died a little in the people's minds. Clifford D. Simak
“ Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional. Clifford D. Simak
“ It's like coming home, said Webster and he wasn't talking to the dog. It's like you've been away for a long, long time and then you come home again. And it's so long you don't recognize the place. Don… Clifford D. Simak
“ Не, мислех си, не можеш да тръгнеш назад през праха на миналите години, през спомените, през събитията, през промените, настъпили в теб и нея, и да се опиташ да си върнеш някой ден или дори час. А и д… Clifford D. Simak
“ Jenkins tried to say goodbye, but he could not say goodbye. If he could only weep, he thought, but robots could not weep. Clifford D. Simak
“ If some of the nations would only take a lesson from some small neighborhood like ours—a lesson in how to get along—the world would be a whole lot better. Clifford D. Simak
