
“There is always a gap between intention and action..”
Source: Hainish Cycle, City of Illusions (1967), Chapter 2
“There is always a gap between intention and action..”
“Junk does that. Junk is a forge. You enter the fire and come out twisted.”
Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 15 “Over Under Sideways Down” (p. 329)
“We are a part of this take-down culture where people are trying to twist your words.”
2019
Source: https://twitter.com/steinhauserNH1/status/1096852721800544256
“There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.”
Class Clown (1972)
Context: There are four hundred thousand words in the English language, and there are seven you can't say on television. What a ratio that is: 399,993 to 7. They must really be bad; they'd have to be outrageous to be separated from a group that large! "All of you over here, you seven? BAD WORDS." That's what they told us they were, remember? "That's a bad word!" …No bad words; bad thoughts, bad intentions... and words. You know the seven, don't you, that you can't say on television? Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. Those are the heavy seven. Those are the ones that will infect your soul, curve your spine, and keep the country from winning the war.
New Delhi, 15-17 April 1983
Quotes from ataljee.org
La verdadera unidad de los matrimonios y aun de las parejas la traen las palabras, más que las palabras dichas—dichas voluntariamente—, las palabras que no se callan—que no se callan sin que nuestra voluntad intervenga—.
Source: Corazón tan blanco [A Heart So White] (1992), p. 132