The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War.”
Preface, p. 10
An Urchin in the Storm (1987)
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The New York Times (26 November 1978)

“Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.”
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Telling (2000), Ch. 2, §2 (p. 32)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 35.

we do not answer those who lie beneath this soil — when we reply to the Negro by asking, "Patience."
1960s, Memorial Day speech (1963)