"Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show."

-- Vivien Leigh

#Fear Quotes #Lines Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.”
“I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means that history has a sense, a meaning, a direction; it goes somewhere, and necessarily in a good direction--the Messiah.”
“Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?”
“I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.”
“It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom only a few of their intricacies. Having defined their attributes and prescribed their behavior, we are hard pressed to perceive the implications of our formulas.”
“Lend your friend $20. If he doesn't pay you back then he's not your friend. Money well spent.”
“We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism.”
“Sameness is what marketers want us to want.”

Source : Thomas M. Disch (2000). “The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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