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The Long Tomorrow

Book by Leigh Brackett · 7 quotes · City, Conformity, Life

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“If you're not honest with yourself, life will never be honest with you.”

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“There's never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that the person doing it didn't think he was fully justified. That's a mental trick called rationalizing, and it's done the human race more harm than anything else you can name.”

Evil Rationalization

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“Birthing takes nine months, and dying takes you all the rest of your life.”

Life Death Living Mortality

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“Sooner or later a man has to stop and choose his way, not out of the ways he would like there to be, or the ways there ought to be, but out of the ways there are.”

Truth Science Fiction Thought Provoking Fundamental Fact Of Life

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“As long as there are crazed or crafty leaders to play on old fears, a mob will turn cruel.”

Conservatism Demagoguery Demagogue

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“The cities were sucking all the life of the country into themselves and destroying it. Men were no longer individuals but units in a vast machine, all cut to one pattern, with the same tastes and ideas, the same mass-produced education that did not educate but only pasted a veneer of catchwords over ignorance. Why do you want to bring that back?”

Conformity City Uniformity Mass Production

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“The cities were sucking all the life of the country into themselves and destroying it. Men were no longer individuals, but units in a vast machine, all cut to one pattern, with the same tastes and ideas, the same mass-produced education that did not educate but only pasted a veneer of catchwords over ignorance.”

Cities Conformity City Uniformity Mass Production

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