David Gerrold Quotes About Past

• I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.

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  David Gerrold

  David Gerrold (2014). “A Covenant of Justice: Trackers, Book Two”, p.98, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and then it too disappears under the onslaught of the next and the next and the next. When the avalanche has shuddered past for a long enough time, the perception of the past evolves. Distant events grow beyond mere history and take on the weight of legend.

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  David Gerrold

  David Gerrold (1993). “Under the Eye of God”, Spectra

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• Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big - and takes on that damned capital C - they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.

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  David Gerrold

  "The Man Who Folded Himself". Book by David Gerrold, 1973.

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