Leigh Brackett: Likeness

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“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)

People , World , Star , Understanding

“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)

Faith , Madness

“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

Knowledge

“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

Way

“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