“No matter which way I go I know now that I will never have peace.
For peace is certainty, and there is no certainty but death.”

— Leigh Brackett, book The Long Tomorrow

Source: The Long Tomorrow (1955), Chapter 29

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American novelist and screenwriter 1915–1978

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