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Mike Resnick
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“I still can’t see why you don’t aim your sights a little higher.” “Because I’m comfortable with you,” she replied. “There are lots of comfortable people in the galaxy,” he said. “Then aren’t you lucky that I haven’t found any of them yet?” Suddenly her face became serious. “Harry, if you haven’t figured out by now that money and looks aren’t important to me, what can I tell you? I’ve been lonely, and you make me feel less lonely. I’ve been an object, and you make me feel like a person. I’ve been asked to do a lot of kinky things, but you’re the very first man who ever asked me to talk to him when there was an empty bed in the next room. I have a farm I haven’t visited in six years, and suddenly you make me want to settle down there. What the hell else do you want me to say?”
Mike Resnick (1942–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I always enjoyed blowing off steam in Berengi for a day or two, but by the third day I usually got to wishing I was back in the bush. Cities, even small ones like Berengi, didn’t appeal to me, and after a couple of days in town a hunter would come to realize that even though the safari business had never been better, he was on the way to becoming a walking anachronism. Cities are built by people who want a permanent home, and farms are worked by people who are tied to the land; those of us with wanderlust in our souls may be necessary in the beginning, but we’re just passing through. Some, like Fuentes, leave early, and some, like me, leave a little later, but eventually all of us leave. Every paved street, every house with a solid foundation, every cultivated piece of land, it’s just another nail in our coffins.”
Mike Resnick (1942–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Have you heard of her?” “No. She is a female?” The tone of his voice was clearly contemptuous. “So I gather.” “What uses a female to me?” “Money knows no gender,” answered McFarley. “I gather she is prepared to sign a treaty with you, by which you will give her the mineral rights she craves and she will assure your primacy over the tribes of Karimon.” “What good is the promise of a female?” said Jalanopi. “Females are little better than Tallgrazers. If a warrior wants one, he buys one. They have no brains. They are good only for preparing meals and producing babies.” “They have no rights,” said McFarley, which is quite a different thing than having no brains. You waste half of your race’s potential by keeping them in such servitude.”
Mike Resnick (1942–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wonder…” said Rawls. “What do you wonder?” “If he wasn’t happier before we arrived. Maybe his kingdom was just a tree and a patch of bare ground, but his word was law and he took orders from no one.” “Of course he was happier before we arrived,” she said irritably. “Just as Men were happier when all they had to do was fill their bellies and keep warm and dry. They didn’t have neuroses, they didn’t fight wars, they didn’t worry about nonessentials.” She paused. “But on the other hand, they lost more than half their children in infancy, they succumbed to every disease that came around, they had no language, no history, no art—and they were hunted by everything that was bigger and stronger. They may have been happier, but they weren’t better off. You learn to take the bad with the good, Linus.” “I suppose so,” he agreed. “But it does lead to another question.” “Oh?” “Which are we—the bad or the good?” “That all depends,” said Violet. “On what?” “On who writes the history books.”
Mike Resnick (1942–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There’s no time to waste, sir. The longer we wait, the greater the chance that we will commit an act that will land us in the pits of hell for all eternity.” “I wonder what an eternity of hell must be like?” mused the gasbag-Pierce, postponing the inevitable for another moment. “I always thought it must be like being locked in a theater that plays endless reruns of Ann Rutherford movies,” offered Arro.” “Really?” asked the gasbag-Pierce, interested. “I pictured it as trying to open a childproof bottle of aspirin until the universe finally fell into the thrall of entropy.” “May I respectfully point out that we have every chance of discovering what eternal damnation is like if you don’t do something very soon, sir?”
Mike Resnick (1942–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source