David Gerrold quotes

Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape. (David Gerrold)
I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think. View quote
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You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for. Live well, my son. View quote
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I also know that Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big-and takes on that damned capital C-they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths. View quote
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I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss. View quote
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Life is full of little surprises. Time travel is full of big ones. View quote
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I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. View quote
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Love isn't what you get. It's what you create. View quote
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Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order. View quote
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Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show. View quote
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In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds. (David Gerrold)
Ah well-the boss didn't have to know how to run the business. He only needed to know how to run the people who knew. View quote
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I wish I could change it all. I wish I could. But I can't. Dammit. Now I know what it's like to have an indelible past-one that can't be erased and changed at will. It's frustrating. It's maddening. And it makes me wish I had been more careful and thoughtful. View quote
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The way I heard it, a contract is a list of all the ways two people don't trust each other. View quote
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Don't push the on-button if you don't know where the off-button is. View quote
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There isn't a tool built that can't be used as a weapon. View quote
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"You could call it that,” Auberson sighed. It wouldn't be correct, but you could call it that. View quote
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so you think there's no validity at all in the subjective? there may be, there may not. in either case, it should not be used as a basis for an objective truth, which is after all what we are seeking. i have no doubt that many of those who claim to have found god have indeed felt something, but i suspect that the "something” they felt was merely a self-induced mystic experience-akin to a drug trip. witness the great numbers of drug users who claim spiritual insights as a result of their experiences. witness also the evangelists and faith-healers who induce hysteria and frenzy into their audiences so that they might feel "the hand of god” upon them. to them, god is little more than a meaningful "high.”. View quote
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shadows of night and reflections of light shiver and quiver and churn, for the searching of soul that never can hurt is the fire that never can burn. View quote
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i do not question your sincerity-if anything, i object to your questioning the sincerity of other religions. i am not questioning their sincerity. i am questioning their validity. View quote
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Auberson's first impression of the man was of eight pounds of potatoes in a ten-pound sack. (David Gerrold)
Not that he was jealous of the machine-but it was reassuring to know that there was still something that human beings could do that machines could not master. Love. View quote
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It was not an unfamiliar sensation, but it was strange to feel it in the daytime. Mostly, it was a nighttime visitor, an ever-gentle gnawing at the back of the head that had to be always guarded against, lest its realization sweep forth with a cold familiar rush. It was the sudden startling glimpse over the edge-the realization that death is inevitable, that it happens to everyone, that it would happen to me too; that someday, someday, the all-important I (the center of the whole thing) would cease to exist. Would stop. Would end. Would no longer be. Nothing. Nobody. Finished. Death. View quote
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You aren't really jumping through time, that's the illusion; what you're actually doing is leaving one timestream and jumping to-maybe even creating-another. The second one is identical to the one you just left, including all of the changes you made in it-up to the instant of your appearance. At that moment, simply by the fact of your existence in it, the second timestream becomes a different timestream. You are the difference. View quote
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Now you see why I hate to leave my lab. It tires me out too much to have to do other people's thinking for them. View quote
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