Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 15

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• I cry for those not yet dead.

  Frank Herbert

  Compassion, Cry

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• Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.

  Frank Herbert

  Princess, Men, Thinking

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.421, Penguin

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• Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.

  Frank Herbert

  Art, Hands, Killing

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.267, Penguin

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• The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you.

  Frank Herbert

  Lying, Past, Endure

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.121, Penguin

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• The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.

  Frank Herbert

  Ecosystems, Niche, Realizing

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.427, Penguin

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• The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

  Frank Herbert

  Used, Ambiguity, Carrie

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.120, Penguin

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• To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.

  Frank Herbert

  Dream, Sleep, Wish

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.380, Penguin

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• What is the son but an extension of the father?

  Frank Herbert

  Father, Son, Extensions

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.43, Penguin

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• The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.

  Frank Herbert

  Belief, Shakes, Supreme

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.55, Penguin

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• You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

  Frank Herbert

  Writing, Attention, Ifs

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.9, Penguin

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• A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.

  Frank Herbert

  Rabbits, Killers, Kind

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.282, Penguin

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• Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.

  Frank Herbert

  Government, Needs, Flaws

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.170, Penguin

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• Law is the ultimate science.

  Frank Herbert

  Law, Ultimate

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.198, Penguin

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• What does a mirror look at?

  Frank Herbert

  Mirrors, Doe, Looks

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.178, Penguin

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• Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.

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  Growth, Amount

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.126, Penguin

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• She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.

  Frank Herbert

  Black, Remember, Blind

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.183, Penguin

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• Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

  Frank Herbert

  Father, Errors, Principles

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.243, Penguin

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• Grief is the price of victory.

  Frank Herbert

  Grief, Victory, Aging

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• Money to a writer is time to write.

  Frank Herbert

  Writing

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• Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

  Frank Herbert

  Training, Language, Delusion

  "Whipping Star". Book by Frank Herbert, "Gowachin Aphorism"; p. 111, 1969.

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• There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.

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  God, Men, Separation

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.16, Penguin

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• Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Block

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.28, Penguin

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• I am not the kind of person I want to be.

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  Want, Kind, Persons

  Frank Herbert (2012). “Dune: The Gateway Collection”, p.591, Hachette UK

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• Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Hero, Problem

  "Dune Genesis". "Omni", Vol. 2, No. 2, (p. 72), July 1980.

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• The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

  Frank Herbert

  Greatness, Feelings, Myth

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.116, Penguin

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