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Cyril M. Kornbluth
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“You have a sense of humor, Mr. Kazam. That’s a rare thing in the religious.”
Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was then that I drifted into the nut cult business. I found out that all you need for capital is a stock of capitalized abstract qualities, like All-Knowingness, Will-Mind-Urge, Planetude and Exciliation. With that to work on I can make my living almost anywhere on the globe.”
Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He began with the complicated salute of the Astral Confederation and got down to business. ‘Brother Kazam,’ he said, ‘I wish to show you an ancient sacred book I have just discovered.’ I laughed, of course. By that time I’d already discovered seven ancient books by myself, all ready-translated into the language of the country I would be working at the time. The ‘Isba Kazhlunk’ was the most successful; that’s the one I found preserved in the hide of a mammoth in a Siberian glacier.”
Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Greed advise with hate; greed wins; greed always wins.”
Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of course, I shouldn’t be telling you state secrets, but I've noticed at home that a state secret is something known to everybody who makes more than fifty thousand a year and to nobody who makes less.”
Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God help the human race if you thugs are its fighters for liberty.”
Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They were immigrants into the sea; like all immigrants they longed for the Old Country. Then the second generation. Like all second generations they had no patience with the old people or their tales. This was real, this sea, this gale, this rope! Then the third generation. Like all third generations it felt a sudden desperate hollowness and lack of identity. What was real? Who are we? What is NEMET which we have lost? But by then grandfather and grandmother could only mumble vaguely; the cultural heritage was gone, squandered in three generations, spent forever. As always, the fourth generation did not care.”
Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source