Norman Spinrad quotes - page 2

I want to take you as close as you can get, I want to feel your ecstasy as you feel mine, I want to bridge the final gap between us, I want us to come together in a place where each can know the other does not lie. (Norman Spinrad)

True civilization consists precisely of conventions, rituals, and modes of oblique communication whereby the chaos within and the void without may be expressed and contained within the harmonious consensus of shared social objectivity, thus maintaining our bubble of crafted reality, the necessary illusion.

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Genius such as yours is a genetic gift.” "So I have heard from my parents.

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The appreciation of the connoisseur is the highest pleasure of the artiste.

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Any attempt at willful ignorance would now be futile or worse; the only talisman against excessive knowledge that might have puissance would be more knowledge.

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Social morality requires a shared matrix of communal reality to which to relate thought and deed, and the illusion of an objective ethical esthetic requires at the very least the conviction that objective reality is more than a contradiction in terms.

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For truth be told, I was tormented by perceptions and their corollary temptation which from a social definition rendered me unsane, though from a more absolute viewpoint what I might be said to have been suffering from was an excess of insight.

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Beneath all this gaiety and baroque complexity lay the simple and so carefully denied: beyond the thin metal surrounding us was the endless humorless void. Hollow rings the laughter of orphans in the night.

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In fifteen billion years did spirit out of less than dust evolve,” he said. "In fifteen billion more will not this universe of stars to less than dust return? Whence did it come? What is there when it is gone?

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Even now, I cannot decide whether I was foolish dupe or noble and tragic lover. Or whether the two are one and the same.

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Here, in the company of the mindless trees, the free-flying birds, the bugs and frogs that passed from stimulus directly to response without the interval of consciousness between, did I hope to lose myself in the living mandala of evolution's less self-tortured forms. (Norman Spinrad)

"If the path exists for spirit to transcend this sorry scheme of things entire, vraiment, it must exist for all.” Or for none at all, I thought, but deigned not to voice.

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The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

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When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

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Norman Spinrad

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Occupation: American Author
Born: September 15, 1940
Quotes count: 39

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