It seems that most quotes that get thrown around that are suppose to inspire come from great literature authors, poets and names that people have heard but now-a-days, barely read. I have some great ones from things I've discovered on my own, in fact. But, looking at them, often times, they seem unobtainable nowadays. This may stem from me not carrying much for cheesy uplifting quotes, but prefer simple truth's and so I steer away from liking those types of quotes, but for now, I want to pull out some awesome quotes from some of my favorite sci fi writers. Ones that I've come across and marveled at whilst reading their works. So here you go. Take your time and enjoy them as I have:
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“It was a movie about American bombers in World War II and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy, the story went like this: American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France, a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation.
The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers , and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were still a few wounded Americans though and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Over France though, German fighters came up again, made everything and everybody as good as new.
When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again. The American fliers turned in their uniforms, became high school kids. And Hitler turned into a baby.” --Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-five
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“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” --Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan
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“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.” --Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-five
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"“Love” is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." --Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
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"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -- Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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"You come and tell me the big news," said Boaz. "'Boaz — ' you say, 'we're going to be free!' And I get all excited, and I drop everthing I'm doin', and I get set to be free.
"And I keep saying it over to myself about how I'm going to be free," said Boaz, "and then I try to think what that's going to be like, and all I can see is people. They push me this way, then they push me that — and nothing pleases 'em, and they get madder and madder, on account of nothing makes 'em happy. And they holler at me on account of I ain't made 'em happy, and we all push and pull some more.
"And then, all of a sudden," said Boaz, "I remember all the crazy little animals I been making so happy so easy with music. And I go find thousands of 'em lying around dead, on account of Boaz forgot all about 'em, he was so excited about being free. And ever' one of them lost lives I could have saved, if I'd have just kept my mind on what I was doing.
"And then I say to myself," said Boaz, "'I ain't never been nothing good to people, and people never been nothing good to me. So what I want to be free in crowds of people for?'
"And then I knew what I was going to say to you, Unk, when I got back here," said Boaz.Boaz now said it:
"I found me a place where I can do good without doing any harm, and I can see I'm doing good, and them I'm doing good for know I'm doing it, and they love me, Unk, as best they can. I found me a home.
"And when I die down here some day," said Boaz, "I'm going to be able to say to myself, 'Boaz — you made millions of lives worth living. Ain't nobody ever spread more joy. You ain't got an enemy in the Universe.'" --Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan--------------------------------------"Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers." --Dan Simmons, Hyperion--------------------------------------
“the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth while it's true but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their meanings are fleeting.” --Neal Stephenson, Anathem
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“We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep humming all day until you spread it to someone else. Jokes. Urban legends. Crackpot religions. Marxism. No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information.” --Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
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Those are just some from my favorite authors and books. There are many more but this was getting lengthy and if anyone makes it this far . . . congrats. Maybe next time I'll do funny quotes... here is one for you just for kicks.
“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bomc,' I said. 'We have a protractor.'
Okay, I'll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string.” --Neal Stephenson, Anathem
"I now understand the need for faith--pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith--as a small life preserver in the world and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it." --Dan Simmons, Hyperion
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"If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hallow." --Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion
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"The essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things--the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossings and connections casual, dialogues imminently forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synergy which was important and eternal." --Dan Simmons, Hyperion
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"Harman realized that he was sobbing-curled, cold, and sobbing-but not sobbing in fear of death or at the imminence of his own loss of everything and everyone, but weaping gratitude that he came from a race that could spawn a man who could write those words, think those thoughts. It almost-almost-made up for the human thought that had conceived, designed, launched, and crewed the submarine behind him with its seven hundred sixty-eight black holes waiting to devour all futures for everyone." --Dan Simmons, Olympos
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“Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.” --Neal Stephenson, Anathem
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“The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and time.” --Neal Stephenson, Anathem
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“We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep humming all day until you spread it to someone else. Jokes. Urban legends. Crackpot religions. Marxism. No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information.” --Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
There are just a few from some of my fav. authors and book. I hope you made it this far. Here is a funny one, just for kicks.
“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bomc,' I said. 'We have a protractor.'" --Neal Stephenson, Anathem
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