Most of the company's employees were content to do what they were told and incurious as to how it was, exactly, that they had worked the miracles that somehow arrived all packaged and labeled and addr...
The pride in strength and important mystery showed no less in the eyes of the sweepers than in those of the machinists and inspectors, and in those of the foreman, who alone was without a lunchbox. A
Archprophet
Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a...
Listen - on the tenth night the peg was pulled out of the hasp on Billy's boxcar door, and the door was opened. Billy Pilgrim was lying at an angle on the corner-brace, self-crucified, holding himself...
No trouble. There really isn’t a heck of a lot to the job.
She quieted, and turned away under his stare. Inadvertently, he’d gained the upper hand. He had somehow communicated the thought that had bobbed up in his thoughts unexpectedly: that her strength and...
Years and years. Why did it have to happen? It was one more hollow echo to the question humanity had been asking for millenniums, the question men were seemingly born to ask
Well finish your story anyway."Where was I?"The bubonic plague. The bulldozer was stalled by corpses."Oh, yes. Anyway, one sleepless night I stayed up with Father while he worked. It was all we could...
I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department. And I wrote some good stuff. If I had been in the English department,...
Americans . . . are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be.
And Halyard suddenly realized that, just as religion and government had been split into disparate entities centuries before, now, thanks to the machines, politics and government lived side by side, bu...
Halyard yawned, and was annoyed to think that Lynn, who had just read order out of chaos as order out of koze, made three times as much money as he did. Lynn, or, as Halyard preferred to think of him,...
He was reading a cheap-looking booklet. Since he was literate, I thought he might be one of the people I was being hired to divert with knowledge. I was right. His name was Abdullah Akbahr. With my en...
The men wore loose loincloths that did little to conceal penes like pendulums on grandfather clocks. There
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. Al...
The truth was that life was as short and brutish and mean as ever. But people didn’t have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in the city and the gent...
Whatever we've said, friends, we're saying still-- such as it was, such as it is, such as it will be
Дядек, у всех дураков одна беда — по крайней глупости они даже не представляют себе, что на свете есть такая штука, как здравый смысл.
Сколько лет прошло, пока мы поняли, что смысл человеческой жизни — кто бы человеком ни управлял, — только в том, чтобы любить тех, кто рядом с тобой, кто нуждается в твоей любви.
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