Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all big American cities, but which reaches its ultimate in New York. Fritz Leiber More Quotes by Fritz Leiber More Quotes From Fritz Leiber Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude. Fritz Leiber chilly servitude warm The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian and Jungian psychiatry, beyond the dubious psi-realms of Dr. Rhine, beyond the areas policed by the commissars and priests and motivations-research men, far, far beyond the mad, beat, half-hysterical laughter... the utterly unknown still is and the eerie and ghostly lurk, as much wrapped in mystery as ever. Fritz Leiber laughter motivation dark I abominate any organization that denies cats are people! Fritz Leiber cat organization people The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it. Fritz Leiber fun rooms world Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other. Fritz Leiber communication mean people What is superstition , but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people grasp at superstition in this rotten, hate-filled, half-doomed world of today? Lord knows, I'd welcome the blackest of black magic, if it could do anything to stave off the atom bomb. Fritz Leiber magic hate people The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright. Fritz Leiber government suffering fall What was life worth, anyway, if you had to sit around remembering not to mention this, that, and the other thing because someone else might be upset? Fritz Leiber upset remember might There are vampires and vampires, and not all of them suck blood. Fritz Leiber hungry vampire blood Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried. Fritz Leiber corridors movement lows The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they were devils. Fritz Leiber wealth devil wonder Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find. Fritz Leiber pebbles half stones Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself. Fritz Leiber cosmos conspiracy assuming Ningauble shrugged. You're a hero. You should know. Fritz Leiber humorous should hero What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love. Fritz Leiber care loneliness people Things are different from what I thought. They're much worse. Fritz Leiber different There was an omnipresent sense of crisis. Fritz Leiber crisis Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards. Fritz Leiber drunkards equal madmen Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours. Fritz Leiber devil purpose may There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky. Fritz Leiber something-new sky night
