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Norman Douglas
Norman Douglas

Norman Douglas was an English writer known for his distinctive literary style and profound descriptions of natural landscapes. His works encompassed travel literature, essays, and novels, which were highly appreciated by readers. more

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“The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like. It wasn’t infinity in fact. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber into which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very very very big, so big that it gave the impression of infinity far better than infinity itself.”

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Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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“What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.”

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Book:Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters
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