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“Some who deserve failure do not achieve it,” he sniffed. “Some who deserve nothing are given the world.
“Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.”
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“Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough—as most wrong theories are!”
― The Time Machine
― The Time Machine
“Is it more foolish and childish to assume there is a conspiracy, or that there is not?”
― The City & The City
― The City & The City
“Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living, I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after all what one would expect; for the strength of a man and the softness of a woman, the institution of the family, and the differentiation of occupations are mere militant necessities of an age of physical force; where population is balanced and abundant, much childbearing becomes an evil rather than a blessing to the State; where violence comes but rarely and offspring are secure, there is less necessity—indeed there is no necessity—for an efficient family, and the specialization of the sexes with reference to their children’s needs disappears.”
― The Time Machine
― The Time Machine
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them—words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
― Different Seasons
― Different Seasons
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