“Can you remember your first taste of spice?” “It tasted like cinnamon.”
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Frank Herbert
“The real universe is always one step behind logic.”
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Frank Herbert
“Full moon calls thee--
Shai-hulud shall thou see;
Red the night, dusky sky,
Bloody death didst thou die.
We pray to a moon: she is round--
Luck with us will then abound,
What we seek for shall be found
In the land of solid ground.”
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Frank Herbert
“I’m the well-trained fruit tree, he thought. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me—all bearing for someone else to pick.”
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Frank Herbert
“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind,’” Paul quoted.”
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Frank Herbert
“Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.”
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Frank Herbert
“people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism.”
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Frank Herbert
“The clock there had not been properly adjusted to local time, and she had to subtract twenty-one minutes to determine that it was about 2 A.M.
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Frank Herbert
“What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
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Frank Herbert
“Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.”
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Frank Herbert
“His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.”
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Frank Herbert