14 Quotes by Cordwainer Smith

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She warned him, kindly enough, about manners when he forgot the simple ceremonies of eating which everyone knew, such as standing up to unfold the napkin or putting the scraps into the solvent tray and the silverware into the transfer.

Great beliefs always come out of the sewers of cities, not out of the towers of the ziggurats.

And now if they should break or you should fall, you might faint for a year or two. If that happens, your local system takes over: that’s the pack on your back.

Chang nodded sagely. “My father insisted on it. He said, ‘You may be proud of being a scanner. I am sorry you are not a man. Conceal your defects.’ So I tried. I wanted to tell the old boy about the up-and-out, and what we did there, but it did not matter. He said, ‘Airplanes were good enough for Confucius, and they are for me too.’ The old humbug!