Cordwainer Smith Quotes

We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire...

The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters.

About Author

Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966), known by his pen-name Cordwainer Smith, was an American author of science fiction. He was an officer in the US Army, a noted scholar of East Asia, and an expert in psychological warfare. He was one of science fiction's more influential authors despite an early death at the age of 53.

But remember that I shall love your sorrow...

He looked at his dry old hand and it seemed to him that in this atmosphere, he had himself become more reptilian than human. I am caught by the dry, drab enturtlement of old, old age, he murmured, but...

It was all of this: The beat and the heat and the neat repeat of the notes which poured from the congohelium—metal never made for music, matter and anti-matter locked in a fine magnetic grid to ward o...

And now if they should break or you should fall, you might faint for a year or two. If that happens, your local system takes over: that's the pack on your back.

At sixteen Helen was already famous, and at seventeen already forgotten, and very much alone.

Meeya Meefla, where

KENnEDY SHOT. OSWALD SHOT TOO.

You and I are animals, darling, not even real people, but people do not understand the teaching of Joan, that whatever seems human is human.

There is no call for you to get tragic about it. Tragedy is easy enough to contrive. And if you want to be tragic, you can be tragic without destroying thirty thousand other people or without wasting...

She is a cat, he thought. That's all she is—a cat!

Crowding together to see something which would ease the boredom of perfection and time.

Joan commented, upon sentence, My body is your property, but my love is not. My love is my own, and I shall love you fiercely while you kill me.

She warned him, kindly enough, about manners when he forgot the simple ceremonies of eating which everyone knew, such as standing up to unfold the napkin or putting the scraps into the solvent tray an...

There is no all-​purpose computer built that weighs as little as a hundred and fifty pounds. You do.

There is no time for fear. It's much too interesting.

Was that what people learned between the stars? To care for other people very much indeed and to spring upon them only to reveal love and not devouring to their prey?

Chang nodded sagely. My father insisted on it. He said, ‘You may be proud of being a scanner. I am sorry you are not a man. Conceal your defects.’ So I tried. I wanted to tell the old boy about the up...

You are Rod McBan the hundred and fifty-first. Specifically, you are a spinal column with a small bone box at one end, the head, and with reproductive equipment at the other end. Inside the bone box y...