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If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.
Stanislaw Lem
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Stanislaw Lem
Age: 84 †
Born: 1921
Born: September 12
Died: 2006
Died: March 27
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Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter s!
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I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.
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Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.
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Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.
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Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?
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I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.
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The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don't write. And there are some like that. They wallow in a sea of possibilities. To express a thought, you first have to limit it, and that means kill it. Every word I speak robs me of a thousand others, and every line I write means giving up another.
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Science is turning into a monastery for the Order of Capitulant Friars. Logical calculus is supposed to supersede man as moralist. We submit to the blackmail of the 'superior knowledge' that has the temerity to assert that nuclear war can be, by derivation, a good thing, because this follows from simple arithmetic.
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Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.
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Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, And every vector dreams of matrices. Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze: It whispers of a more ergodic zone.
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I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.
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To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
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Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.
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