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Friendship (91)
A friend is a friend, but an enemy is an enemy. Are there any questions? - Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky, Prisoners of Power (1969)
Esteem is the basis of every friendship. - Joanna Russ, ‘‘The Soul of a Servant’’ (1973)
She reached out across the cathedral of space-time to those hopelessly distant candle-furnaces, where all the material elements had been forged again and again inside the generation of suns, where alien sunspaces were certain to contain other humanities, however di.erent, and she wondered if someone there might be her friend. - George Zebrowski, Macrolife (1979)
Of my friend [Spock], I can only say this...ofallthe souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most- human. - Jack B. Sowards, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (.lm, 1982)
A friend who o.ers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price. - Robert A. Heinlein, TheCatWhoWalksthroughWalls(1985)
With .lthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy. - William Golding, Lord of the Flies (1954)
Like the Eternal Man of Babylonian legend, like Gilgamesh, one thousand plus two hundred years stretches before Trent- without love, without friendship, alone, neither man nor machine, waiting- waiting for the day he will be called to free the humans who gave him mobility, movement, but not life. - Harlan Ellison, ‘‘Demon with a Glass Hand,’’ episode of The Outer Limits
A dear friend, a great scientist, now dead, used to tease me by saying that because politics is the art of the possible, it appeals only to second-rate minds. The .rst-raters, he claimed, were only interested in the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke, TheFountainsof Paradise (1979)
That is the tragedy of language, my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong. - Orson Scott Card, Xenocide (1991)
Everything in the universe has collapsed...shifting,random, purposeless gray smoke you can’t put your hands on. The only thing that’s left is people; your family, your friends, your mistress, your protector. You can touch them, be close to them...breathing life that’s warm and solid. Perspiration, skin and hair, saliva, breath, bodies. Taste, touch, smell, colors. Good God, there has to be something you can grab hold of! What is there, beyond people? - Philip K. Dick, Solar Lottery (1955)
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