"Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process."

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Source : Greg Bear (2014). “The Forge of God”, p.173, Open Road Media

Greg Bear

#Apocalypse Quotes #Process Quotes #Democratic Quotes

“It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.”
“There's something political about creating a world that you want to exist.”
“I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us orders: come to the desk, the truck is backing up, the ice cream is here, it's time to go to church. They're sounds our brains are already associated with.”
“The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse than a farce, ... We shall in the coming days and weeks see what we can do to expose the pack of lies and innuendoes that characterise the garbage in this report.”
“I was 11 when I first said I wanted to become an actress, and everyone looked at me as if I had said I wanted to go to the moon.”
“A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community, and the misplaced emphasis on the 'individual' has been corrected. God has set things up so that cultural endeavour is always a communal enterprise, done by trained men and women in concert, gripped by a spirit that is larger than each one individually and that pulls them together as they do their formative work.”
“Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.”
“All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.”

Source : Enemies of Promise (1938) ch. 16

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