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"Are you from Venus? Jupiter? Philadelphia?"
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Walter Tevis“Do you realize that you will not only wreck your civilization, such a — Walter Tevis
"“Do you realize that you will not only wreck your civilization, such as it is, and kill most of your people; but that you will also poison the fish in your rivers, the squirrels in your trees, the flocks of birds, the soil, the water? There are times when you seem, to us, like apes loose in a museum, carrying knives, slashing the canvases, breaking the statuary with hammers.” For a moment Bryce did not speak. Then he said, “But it was human beings who painted the pictures, made the statues.” “Only a few human beings,” Newton said. “Only a few.”"
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Walter Tevis
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Walter Stone Tevis Jr. was an American novelist and screenwriter. Three of his six novels were adapted into major films: The Hustler, The Color of Money and The Man Who Fell to Earth. A fourth, The Queen’s Gambit, was adapted into a miniseries with the same title and shown on Netflix in 2020. His books have been translated into at least 18 languages.
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"He thought, looking at the cat, if only you were the intelligent species on this world. And then, smiling wryly, maybe you are."
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"“We must remember that the United States, regardless of what the uninformed may say, is not a second-rate power. We must remember that freedom will conquer, we must…” Suddenly Newton realized that the man speaking was the President of the United States, and he was speaking the bombast of the hopeless."
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"Weren’t there naive arts and sophisticated arts? And corrupt arts as well? And might that not be true of the sciences too? Could chemistry be more corrupt than botany? But that wasn’t so. It was the uses, the ends…"
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"Bryce thought for a minute. Then he laughed at his situation: using a Martian, in a bar, for a confessor. But perhaps it was appropriate."
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"The large picture of the heron on the far wall began to fade. When it was gone it was replaced by the head of a handsome man with the falsely serious stare in his eyes that is cultivated by politicians, faith healers, and evangelists."
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