Mark Clifton: Likeness

Mark Clifton was American writer. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

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“In either event he could only adhere to the letter of the law, but then for every yea in the law there was a nay, and it always boiled down to simple expediency. Like a psychiatric diagnosis, it could always be juggled around to fit anything you chose.”

Mark Clifton book They'd Rather Be Right

Source: They'd Rather Be Right (1954), p. 79.

“At this stage of man’s evolution, our scientists have been like little children facing a table piled high with the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. One piece is picked up and its holder says, “This is the important piece. I hold the one key to everything in my hands.” Well, of course, he does. Because every piece is a key piece.”

Mark Clifton book They'd Rather Be Right

Source: They'd Rather Be Right (1954), p. 177.

“The suppressed hunger to think was like an epidemic.”

Mark Clifton book They'd Rather Be Right

Source: They'd Rather Be Right (1954), p. 17.

“To say that man has already achieved the ultimate and absolute truth is like a tribal taboo which says that a given river may never be crossed because the witch doctor proves beyond all reason that there is only chaos beyond.
The most puzzling of all contradictory concepts given me is the human will to set up such arbitrary limits to his comprehension.”

Mark Clifton book They'd Rather Be Right

Source: They'd Rather Be Right (1954), p. 109.