Murray Leinster: Making

Murray Leinster was Novelist, short story writer. Explore interesting quotes on making.
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“A practical man can always make what he wants to do look like a noble sacrifice of personal inclinations to the welfare of the community.”

Murray Leinster book The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 6

“It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.”

Murray Leinster

Source: Time Tunnel (1964), Chapter 4 (p. 45).

““We’re fools!” said Harrison. “Morons! Idiots!”
“If you speak of my altruism,” said Pepe cheerfully, “I agree. But if you speak of your interest in a very pretty girl, then I point out that nobody is ever as happy as while he is making a fool of himself over a woman.”

Murray Leinster

Source: Time Tunnel (1964), Chapter 2 (p. 24).

“Most men develop convictions about the cosmos and such beliefs come in two varieties. One kind is a conviction that the cosmos does not make sense. That it exists by chance and changes by chance and human beings do not matter. This view produces a fine complacency. The other kind is a belief that the cosmos does make sense, and was designed with the idea that people were going to live in it, and that what they do and what happens to them is important. This theory seems to be depressing.”

Murray Leinster

Source: Time Tunnel (1964), Chapter 1 (p. 8).

“He irritably suspected himself of a tendency to make enemies unnecessarily.”

Murray Leinster book The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 3