Quotes by Walter M. Miller, Jr. - Page 1

Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.
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Bless
Father
Lizards
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For no change comes calmly over the world.
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One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.
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Should
Speak
Third Person
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Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.
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Asks
Omen
Stones
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I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.
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Father
Littles
Mad
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....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.
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That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.
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Fats
Past
Sin
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It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.
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Men
Blood
Children
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Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.
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Doubt
Powerful
Tools
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The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.
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Advice
Priests
Trouble
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Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.
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Consistency
Events
Sun
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....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.
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Pride
Responsibility
Vanity
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But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.
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Men
Infinite
Wells
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When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.
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Doe
Evil
Tire
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Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.
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Men
Errors
Thinking
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Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.
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Pain
Sacrifice
Self
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When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, men in these times tended to snicker.
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Men
Church
Snickers
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Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right now, right here, right this very instant, maybe.
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Destiny
Instant
Speak
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The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be folly for another. Who is qualified to judge? Only the universe, which passes the judgment of survival on all peoples.
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Judging
Survival
Would Be
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To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law - a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.
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Law
Opposites
Suffering
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Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the core of the Temple, it had also scorched the life from a city, this night, and spewed its venom over the land. How strange of God to speak from a burning bush, and of Man to make a symbol of Heaven into a symbol of Hell.
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Men
Fire
Night
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The wild black scavengers of the skies laid their eggs in season and lovingly fed their young. They soared high over prairies and mountains and plains, searching for the fulfillment of that share of life's destiny which was theirs according to the plan of Nature. Their philosophers demonstrated by unaided 15 Animals reason alone that the Supreme Cathartes aura regnans had created the world especially for buzzards. They worshipped him with hearty appetites for many centuries.
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Animal
Destiny
Sky
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Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America—burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion.
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Fall
Phoenix
Play
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What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there's no longer much meaning in asking whose ax is bloodier. Evil, on evil, piled on evil. Was there any justification in our 'police action' in space? How can we know? Certainly there was no justification for what they did - or was there? We only know what that thing says, and that thing is a captive. The Asian radio has to say what will least displease it's government; ours has to say what will least displease our fine patriotic opinionated rabble, which is what, coincidentally, the government wants it to say anyhow, so where's the difference?
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Government
Hate
Patriotic
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