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It wouldn’t be right, the first night on Mars, to make a loud noise, to introduce a strange, silly bright thing like a stove. It would be a kind of imported blasphemy. There’d be time for that later;...
It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the...
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break eggs at the smaller end.
Is there a Bible chapter, I wonder? Futilities, verse four, paragraph two?''There will be.''And will I write it?''I have faith in you, Father!''Reverend!' he cried.'Reverend,' I said.
Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?
In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.
In your life, did you know enthusiasm?' If the answer is yes you enter the sky. If no, you fall to burn in the pit.
In the sunlight, snow melts, crystals evaporate into a steam, into nothing. In the firelight, vapors dance and vanish. In the core of a volcano, fragile things burst and disappear. The girl, in the gu...
In the attic where the rain touched the roof softly on spring days and where you could feel the mantle of snow outside, a few inches away, on December nights, A Thousand Times Great Grandmère existed....
In real life, as we know, the failure to relax a particular tension can lead to madness.
In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.
Impossible, for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often - he searched for a smile,found one in his work - torches, blazing away until they whiffed out...
If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.
I'm burning a way of life, just like that way of life is being burned clean of Earth right now. Forgive me if I talk like a politician. I am, after all, a former state governor, and I was honest and t...
I'm antisocial,they say. I don't mix. It's so strange.I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking to you about things like this. She rattl...
I'm anti-social, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it?
I'll be darned! said Douglas. I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!And it's kind of sad, said Tom, sitting still.There's nothing we can do to help them.
I wish I had known him, but he was just another shadow outside my screen door and I already had a sufficiency of shadows in.
I was never young. Whoever I was then is dead. I've always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you've d...