#no

As soon as you go into merchandising, everyone nods sagely and says, 'Ah, now we know why you are doing it.' ↗

— Dave Sim

#doing #everyone #go #into #know

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to? ↗

— Dave Sim

#been #cannot #did #even #exist

The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women. ↗

— Dave Sim

#been #call #couple #even #evidence

North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again. ↗

— Dave Sim

#american #happen #just #keep #leftists

It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#emptiness #feature #had #happened #here

It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#another #by the time #capability #deep #deep space

Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#earth #escaping #fatal #final #greatest

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#even #exists #great #know #more

We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#another #another day #day #fact #gone

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#arrived #between #black #calm #could