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“Sapete anche voi che il bisogno può spingere a cose insensate, cose che non si vorrebbero fare?”

Leigh Brackett

Origine: Gli ultimi giorni di Shandakor, p. 214

Leigh Brackett: Frasi in inglese

“Invisibility is a condition of godhead. If folk could see them, they would know the truth, and the Lords Protector would cease to be divine.”

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Leigh Brackett

Origine: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 22 (p. 151)

“Witchcraft to the ignorant,…. Simple science to the learned.”

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“The man who doesn’t fear, doesn’t live long. I fear everything.”

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Origine: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 5 (p. 32)

“With any luck. Stark smiled cynically. Not that he did not believe in luck. Rather, he had found it to be an uncertain ally.”

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Origine: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 3 (p. 18)

““Better to make haste slowly than not at all,” said Amnir sententiously.”

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Origine: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 11 (p. 74)

“The mountains dwindled away into hills covered with a dark, stunted scrub. Beyond them the land flattened out to the horizon, a treeless immensity of white and gray-green, a spongy mossiness flecked with a million icy ponds. The wind blew, sometimes hard, sometimes harder.”

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Origine: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 10 (p. 63)

“There was a smell in the air now. The hot, close, frightening small of mob; mob excited, hungry, dreaming blood and death. The primitive in Stark knew that sweaty acridity all too well.”

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Origine: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 7 (p. 45)

“Under the attentiveness was fear, and something else. Anger, hate—the instinctive rejection of an intolerable truth.”

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Origine: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 22 (p. 149)

“Stark said wearily, “I don’t think you understand.” Normally he was tolerant of tribal fancies, but he felt no great tenderness for the Outdwellers. “The stars are already defiled. They’re only suns, like that one over your head. They have worlds around them, like this one under your feet. People live on those worlds, people who never heard of Outdwellers or their footling goddess. And the starships fly between them. It’s all going on out there, this second as you stand here, and nothing you can do will stop it.””

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Origine: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 15 (pp. 126-127)

“The Thyrans came on, as merciless as time.”

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Origine: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 19 (p. 125)

“Stark did not like them. There was a touch of madness in them, born of the long dark and the too-long-held faith.”

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Origine: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 15 (p. 102)

““Aren’t you even curious?” he asked. “A million worlds out there with more wonders than I could tell you in a million years, and you don’t even want to ask a question?””

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Origine: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 15 (p. 128)

“I can’t tell you if the stories are true. Men lie without meaning to. They talk as if they had been part of a thing that happened to someone they never knew and only heard of by sixth remove.”

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Origine: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 10 (p. 65)

“Knowledge is not like sin. There is no mystical escape from it.”

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