Cordwainer Smith Quotes

#1. And now if they should break or you should fall, you might faint for a year or two. If that happens, your local system takes over: that's the pack on your back.

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#2. Crowding together to see something which would ease the boredom of perfection and time.

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#3. We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire ...

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#4. Joan commented, upon sentence, My body is your property, but my love is not. My love is my own, and I shall love you fiercely while you kill me.

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#5. She is a cat," he thought. "That's all she is - a cat!"
But that was not how his mind saw her - quick beyond all dreams of speed, sharp, clever, unbelievably graceful, beautiful, wordless and undemanding.
Where would he ever find a woman who could compare with her?

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#6. ... but remember that I shall love your sorrow...

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#7. The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters.

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#8. There is no time for fear. It's much too interesting.

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