We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion. Stephen Baxter More Quotes by Stephen Baxter More Quotes From Stephen Baxter When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again. Stephen Baxter enough 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 envycuttingpast 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 libertyexampleresponsibility When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks. Stephen Baxter anxietygivinglaughing The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving. Stephen Baxter forgivingearthlong 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 corporationsblackphones We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by. Stephen Baxter donewould-bekids Authority. The antithesis of science. Stephen Baxter antithesisauthority We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man. Stephen Baxter oughtmen In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box. Stephen Baxter policespacelying
