They – note the ‘they’ – paid Dr Stone to figure out what had destroyed the patient entering the ward. In each case a bullet had been fired at him, somewhere, at some time, in his life. The bullet ent...
Thomas, Fat told me, is smarter than I am, and he knows more than I do. Of the two of us Thomas is the master personality. He considered that good; woe unto someone who has an evil or stupid other per...
Upon him the contempt of three planets descended.
We are all sleeping avatars of God, with amnesia.
We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life world, elements of which have become f...
We trust—I’ll tell you what we trust that fouls us up, Roy; it’s our goddamn superior intelligence!
What do you want? Egg in your beer?
When I was a child I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. Now I must seek in other realms.
You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people...
You learn to get by from day to day, Sam Regan said sympathetically to him. You never think in longer terms. Just until dinner or until time for bed; very finite intervals and tasks and pleasures. Esc...
Это всеобщий мрак, крушение мироздания; проклятие в действии, проклятие, которое лежит на всей жизни. В любой точке Вселенной.
After her initial fear had diminished, something else had begun to emerge from her. Something more strange. And, he thought, deplorable. A coldness. Like, he thought, a breath from the vacuum between...
Am I the only one who knows? I'll bet I am; nobody else really understands Grasshopper but me - they just imagine they do.
And who am I? The wrong person; I can tell you that.
Before they came here I could stand it, being alone in the building. But now it’s changed… You can’t go from people to nonpeople.
But change’s always harsh on the loser. Nothing new.
Christ on the crapper,
Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. You shouldn’t be alone. It’s ki...
He thought, too, about his need for a real animal; within him an actual hatred once more manifested itself toward his electric sheep, which he had to tend, had to care about, as if it lived. The tyran...
I am life,’ the girl said.‘What?’ he said, startled.‘To you, I am life. What are you, thirty-eight? Forty? What have you learned? Have you done anything? Look at me, look. I’m life and when you’re don...
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