21 Quotes by Gordon R. Dickson

John Le Carre said that authenticity is less important than plausibility.

They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in effort out of the soul of a man. These things offer pale pleasures compared to that which is greatest of them all, that task which demands from him more than his utmost strength, that absorbs him, bone and sinew and brain and hope and fear and dreams – and still calls for more.

More blood’s been spilled by the militant adherents of prophets of change than by any other group of people down through the history of man.