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The Long Tomorrow

The Long Tomorrow

'No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile, shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in the United States of America.' Thirtieth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Two generations after the nuclear holocaust, rumors persisted about a secret desert hideaway where scientists worked with dangerous machines and where men plotted to revive the cities. Almost a continent away, Len Coulter heard whisperings that fired his imagination. Then one day he found a strange wooden box ...


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“Knowledge is not like sin. There is no mystical escape from it.”

Source: The Long Tomorrow (1955), Chapter 30

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“Was he trying to frighten you?”

“I don’t think so,” said Len. “I think he was just telling me the truth.”
Source: The Long Tomorrow (1955), Chapter 23

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“I guess we’ve got a lot to learn.”

“Quite a lot,” said Hostetter thoughtfully. “It won’t be easy, either. So many things will jar against every belief you’ve grown up with, and I don’t care how you scoff at it, some of it sticks to you.”
Source: The Long Tomorrow (1955), Chapter 16

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“Will it always stay like this?”

“Nothing,” said Hostetter, “ever stays always like anything.”
Source: The Long Tomorrow (1955), Chapter 16

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