Stephen Baxter Quotes

• When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.

  Stephen Baxter

  Enough

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• When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.

  Stephen Baxter

  Giving, Laughing, Anxiety

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• 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

  Cutting, Past, Envy

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• Authority. The antithesis of science.

  Stephen Baxter

  Authority, Antithesis

  Stephen Baxter (2012). “Moonseed”, p.50, HarperCollins UK

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• We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.

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  Kids, Would Be, Done

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• The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.

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  Long, Forgiving, Earth

  Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett (2013). “The Long War: (Long Earth 2)”, p.29, Random House

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• We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

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  Kids, Young, Ruined

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• We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man.

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  Men, Ought

  Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett (2013). “The Long War: (Long Earth 2)”, p.57, Random House

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• 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.

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  Responsibility, Liberty, Example

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• In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

  Stephen Baxter

  Lying, Space, Police

  "Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice". Book by Stephen Baxter, August 16, 2012.

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• 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

  Phones, Black, Corporations

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