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Leigh Douglass Brackett was an American writer, particularly of science fiction, and has been referred to as the Queen of Space Opera. She was also a screenwriter, known for her work on such films as The Big Sleep , Rio Bravo and The Long Goodbye . She also worked on an abandoned draft of The Empire Strikes Back . She was the first woman shortlisted for the Hugo Award. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. December 1915 – 18. March 1978
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Famous Leigh Brackett Quotes

““Better to make haste slowly than not at all,” said Amnir sententiously.”

Leigh Brackett

Source: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 11 (p. 74)

“There was a smell in the air now. The hot, close, frightening small of mob; mob excited, hungry, dreaming blood and death. The primitive in Stark knew that sweaty acridity all too well.”

Leigh Brackett

Source: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 7 (p. 45)

“The mountains dwindled away into hills covered with a dark, stunted scrub. Beyond them the land flattened out to the horizon, a treeless immensity of white and gray-green, a spongy mossiness flecked with a million icy ponds. The wind blew, sometimes hard, sometimes harder.”

Leigh Brackett

Source: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 10 (p. 63)

“Invisibility is a condition of godhead. If folk could see them, they would know the truth, and the Lords Protector would cease to be divine.”

Leigh Brackett

Source: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 22 (p. 151)

“With any luck. Stark smiled cynically. Not that he did not believe in luck. Rather, he had found it to be an uncertain ally.”

Leigh Brackett

Source: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 3 (p. 18)

Leigh Brackett Quotes

“The man who doesn’t fear, doesn’t live long. I fear everything.”

Leigh Brackett

Source: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 5 (p. 32)

“Under the attentiveness was fear, and something else. Anger, hate—the instinctive rejection of an intolerable truth.”

Leigh Brackett

Source: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 22 (p. 149)

“Stark said wearily, “I don’t think you understand.” Normally he was tolerant of tribal fancies, but he felt no great tenderness for the Outdwellers. “The stars are already defiled. They’re only suns, like that one over your head. They have worlds around them, like this one under your feet. People live on those worlds, people who never heard of Outdwellers or their footling goddess. And the starships fly between them. It’s all going on out there, this second as you stand here, and nothing you can do will stop it.””

Leigh Brackett

Source: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 15 (pp. 126-127)

“The Thyrans came on, as merciless as time.”

Leigh Brackett

Source: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 19 (p. 125)

“Stark did not like them. There was a touch of madness in them, born of the long dark and the too-long-held faith.”

Leigh Brackett

Source: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 15 (p. 102)

““Aren’t you even curious?” he asked. “A million worlds out there with more wonders than I could tell you in a million years, and you don’t even want to ask a question?””

Leigh Brackett

Source: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 15 (p. 128)

“I can’t tell you if the stories are true. Men lie without meaning to. They talk as if they had been part of a thing that happened to someone they never knew and only heard of by sixth remove.”

Leigh Brackett

Source: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 10 (p. 65)

“Knowledge is not like sin. There is no mystical escape from it.”

Leigh Brackett book The Long Tomorrow

Source: The Long Tomorrow (1955), Chapter 30

“I am finished with running. Now I will stop and choose my way.
Sooner or later a man has to stop and choose his way, not out of the ways he would like there to be, or the ways there ought to be, but out of the ways there are.”

Leigh Brackett book The Long Tomorrow

Source: The Long Tomorrow (1955), Chapter 29

“No matter which way I go I know now that I will never have peace.
For peace is certainty, and there is no certainty but death.”

Leigh Brackett book The Long Tomorrow

Source: The Long Tomorrow (1955), Chapter 29

“Was he trying to frighten you?”

Leigh Brackett book The Long Tomorrow

“I don’t think so,” said Len. “I think he was just telling me the truth.”
Source: The Long Tomorrow (1955), Chapter 23

“You can’t destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive.”

Leigh Brackett book The Long Tomorrow

Source: The Long Tomorrow (1955), Chapter 21

“I guess we’ve got a lot to learn.”

Leigh Brackett book The Long Tomorrow

“Quite a lot,” said Hostetter thoughtfully. “It won’t be easy, either. So many things will jar against every belief you’ve grown up with, and I don’t care how you scoff at it, some of it sticks to you.”
Source: The Long Tomorrow (1955), Chapter 16

“Will it always stay like this?”

Leigh Brackett book The Long Tomorrow

“Nothing,” said Hostetter, “ever stays always like anything.”
Source: The Long Tomorrow (1955), Chapter 16

“There’s never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that the person doing it didn’t think he was fully justified. That’s a mental trick called rationalizing, and it’s done the human race more harm than anything else you can name.”

Leigh Brackett book The Long Tomorrow

Source: The Long Tomorrow (1955), Chapter 14

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