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Stephen Baxter Quotes

When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.

When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.

Stephen Baxter
Enough

When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.

Stephen Baxter
Giving, Laughing, Anxiety

The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.

Stephen Baxter
Cutting, Past, Envy

Authority. The antithesis of science.

Stephen Baxter
Authority, Antithesis
Stephen Baxter (2012). “Moonseed”, p.50, HarperCollins UK

We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.

Stephen Baxter
Kids, Would Be, Done

The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.

Stephen Baxter
Long, Forgiving, Earth
Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett (2013). “The Long War: (Long Earth 2)”, p.29, Random House

We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

Stephen Baxter
Kids, Young, Ruined

We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man.

Stephen Baxter
Men, Ought
Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett (2013). “The Long War: (Long Earth 2)”, p.57, Random House

A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.

Stephen Baxter
Responsibility, Liberty, Example

In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

Stephen Baxter
Lying, Space, Police
"Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice". Book by Stephen Baxter, August 16, 2012.

Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches and reach. And who, despite all this, seems pretty sane and beneficent by the standards of most gods. Oh, and who sometimes swears in Tibetan.

Stephen Baxter
Phones, Black, Corporations

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