Lawrence M. Schoen Quotes

Lawrence M. Schoen is an American author, publisher, psychologist, hypnotist, and expert in the Klingon language. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. July 1959
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Famous Lawrence M. Schoen Quotes

“It all seemed like madness, but was madness anything other than desperation blended with hope?”

Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 29, “Choice and Sacrifice” (p. 270)

“Prophecy is first and foremost a self-serving gift.”

Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 38, “Loose Ends” (p. 354)

“It seems to me, that the most unlikely events almost have to happen, or life would just be dull and no one would write anything down.”

Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 17, “Dead Voices” (p. 171)

““You didn’t do any of these things because they were necessarily good unto themselves, but because you saw them as means to shape events to serve your own ends. The entire legacy of the Matriarch is the exploitation of others like pieces in some great game.”
She laughed in his face. “You can see it that way if you like. The weak usually do, if they see it at all. But you disappoint me. Despite your study of history, you fail to understand power. It’s obvious you never will… There’s really only one choice you ever have to make in any act of creation. Will you be the instrument or the artist? If you’re only now coming to realize that you’ve been a tool all your life, there’s no one to blame for it but yourself. If you don’t like that state of affairs, then act! Impose your will upon the world and walk your own path. If you don’t, you’ll just end up being a token in someone else’s game; you’ll continue to be used as they see fit. That’s how the universe works. You don’t have to like it, but you’d do well to get used to it.”…
“No, maybe that’s the way the world looks once you’ve already decided to take your path. Or maybe it’s just you’re so jaded, or you’ve bought into your own delusions. I don’t know which, and I don’t care. Those aren’t the only choices: use of be used. There is more than being tyrant or servant. I reject both options and I reject you. You’ve been dead for centuries, Margda, it’s about time you accepted that.””

Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 38, “Loose Ends” (pp. 362-363; ellipses represent elisions of descriptive sections)

Lawrence M. Schoen Quotes about time

“Ah, self-interest at last. Despite all of our differences, of race and time and distance, we achieve commonality. I understand self-interest.”

Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 18, “One-Sided Conversation” (p. 176)

Lawrence M. Schoen Quotes about the dead

““Oh! This isn’t possible. You’re dead.”
“So are you, but we’re not going to let that get in our way.””

Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 24, “Dead to Dead” (pp. 230-231)

“I’m dead, Jorl. You can’t tell me what to do.”

Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 2, “Possibilities and Myths” (p. 24)

“We’ve met, and it wasn’t the highlight of my being dead.”

Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 29, “Choice and Sacrifice” (p. 265)

Lawrence M. Schoen Quotes

“There will be paperwork, no government action can occur without it, but that can come later.”

Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 38, “Loose Ends” (p. 354)

“In all the rest of my life’s wanderings, I never met another person who spoke words to rival the beauty of mathematics.”

Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 17, “Dead Voices” (p. 171)

“I’m not accusing you of anything, but we both have studied too much history to ignore coincidence.”

Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 17, “Dead Voices” (p. 170)

“I mean, sure, like all prophecy the wording is vague.”

Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 2, “Possibilities and Myths” (p. 27)

“Was all of the universe a fixed game, if one only knew where and how to look?”

Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 27, “Blind Endgame Beginning” (p. 251)

“You didn’t do any of these things because they were necessarily good unto themselves, but because you saw them as means to shape events to serve your own ends. The entire legacy of the Matriarch is the exploitation of others like pieces in some great game.”

She laughed in his face. “You can see it that way if you like. The weak usually do, if they see it at all. But you disappoint me. Despite your study of history, you fail to understand power. It’s obvious you never will...There’s really only one choice you ever have to make in any act of creation. Will you be the instrument or the artist? If you’re only now coming to realize that you’ve been a tool all your life, there’s no one to blame for it but yourself. If you don’t like that state of affairs, then act! Impose your will upon the world and walk your own path. If you don’t, you’ll just end up being a token in someone else’s game; you’ll continue to be used as they see fit. That’s how the universe works. You don’t have to like it, but you’d do well to get used to it.”...
“No, maybe that’s the way the world looks once you’ve already decided to take your path. Or maybe it’s just you’re so jaded, or you’ve bought into your own delusions. I don’t know which, and I don’t care. Those aren’t the only choices: use of be used. There is more than being tyrant or servant. I reject both options and I reject you. You’ve been dead for centuries, Margda, it’s about time you accepted that.”
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 38, “Loose Ends” (pp. 362-363; ellipses represent elisions of descriptive sections)

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