Murray Leinster Quotes (1896-1975)

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“The unfamiliar is not necessarily unreasonable.”

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“His reasoning was emotional, and therefore simple.”

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“He was in a state of doubt which passed very well for modesty.”

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“The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.”

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“Hoddan angrily suspected fate and chance of plain conspiracy against him.”

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“He irritably suspected himself of a tendency to make enemies unnecessarily.”

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“It is the custom of all men, everywhere, to be obtuse where women are concerned.”

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“This was the second time in his life he’d been on a horse. It was two too many.”

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“The hearts of the rich are hardened. The existence of the poor is a reproach to them.”

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“He needed some rather extensive changes in the relationship of the cosmos to himself.”

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“For once, no eminent figure assumed the undignified pose involved in standing on one’s dignity.”

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“Hoddan felt the anger any man feels when he sees betrayal of that honor a competent machine represents.”

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“Twilight remained, a fairy half-light in which all things looked much more charming than they really were.”

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“But it might not be true enough. It might be less than...well...sufficiently true in a particular instance.”

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“I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don’t you ever read about politics?”

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““You are wonderful!” she said with conviction.
“I used to cherish that illusion myself,” said Hoddan.”

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“He signed himself prince of this, lord of that, baron of the other thing and claimant to the dukedom of something else.”

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“It isn’t illegal to buy an artist’s work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!”

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““Put dispassionately,” said Haynes cheerfully, “you sound like you’re crazy. But you’re stating facts. Okay so far.””

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“My specialty is the mechanics of research. But I test my theories about how to make discoveries by using them to make discoveries.”

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““I’ve got an impossible job on my hands,” he told them, “and if I succeed at it, there’s an inconceivable one to follow.””

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“My purpose is not to make profits, but to keep people from being killed. Quaint, eh? But I’m one of the people I don’t want killed.”

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“And, just as she had responded to primitive prowess, so Ron reacted to feminine admiration by an enormously increased urge to accomplish.”

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“A practical man can always make what he wants to do look like a noble sacrifice of personal inclinations to the welfare of the community.”

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“Lane understood. Burke was one of that considerable part of humanity which enthusiastically believes in anything that’s sufficiently dramatic.”

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Murray Leinster on Wealth

“The hearts of the rich are hardened. The existence of the poor is a reproach to them.”

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Murray Leinster on Twilight

“Twilight remained, a fairy half-light in which all things looked much more charming than they really were.”

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