Oneness Quotes (page 667)
![Immanuel Kant quote: "In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful,..."](/pic/373027/600x316/quotation-immanuel-kant-in-all-judgements-by-which-we-describe-anything.jpg)
![Carl Sagan quote: "The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will..."](/pic/373026/600x316/quotation-carl-sagan-the-sky-calls-to-us-if-we-do-not-destroy-ourselves.jpg)
![Charlaine Harris quote: "It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put..."](/pic/373021/600x316/quotation-charlaine-harris-it-was-one-of-gods-jokes-that-such-a-dumb.jpg)
![Sigmund Freud quote: "Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing,..."](/pic/372979/600x316/quotation-sigmund-freud-words-and-magic-were-in-the-beginning-one-and-the.jpg)
So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way...
Poul Anderson
If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or to retreat. Perhaps it is its perpetual ambivalence that is its secret charm. Somewhere between Preservation Hall and the Superdome, between voodoo and cybernetics, New Orleans listens eagerly to the seductive promises of the future but keeps at least one foot firmly...
Tom Robbins
The one that sang, old Janine, was always whispering into the g***** microphone before she sang. She'd say, 'And now we like to geeve you our impression of Vooly Voo Fransay. Eet ees the story of leetle Fransh girl who comes to a beeg ceety, just like New York, and falls een love wees a leetle boy from Brookleen. We hope you like eet.' Then, when she was all done whispering and being cute as hell, she'd sing some dopey song, half in English and half in French, and drive all the phonies in the...
J. D. Salinger