I didn't become rich, but I was usually comfortable.Why is it that once having decided what I must do, I'm afraid to reexamine my decision? Maybe because the original decision cost me so much that I didn’t want to go through it again.The only thing going for it is that it occasionally succeeds in substituting talk for fists. And if that’s a solution to anything, I'd rather live without solutions. Yes, I do see war as a way of living with one another by imposing your will on another in terms so unmistakable that the opponent has to either knuckle under to you, die, or beat your brains out. In the end, those two old dinosaurs are the only ways humans have yet discovered to be social animals. What they had going certainly came as near as anyone ever has in this imperfect world to a sane, rational way for people to exist without warfare and with a minimum of politics."The Persistence of Vision", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (March 1978), reprinted as the title story in The Persistence of Vision (1978).They understood the basic principles of morals: that nothing is moral always, and anything is moral under the right circumstances."Equinoctial" (1977), The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels, p.She was becoming an object, something she was going to do something unpleasant to not a person with a right to live. She was already putting her distance between herself and this woman she would kill."The Phantom of Kansas" (1976), The World Treasury of Science Fiction (ed.Just because Beethoven doesn’t sound like currently popular art doesn’t mean his music is worthless."In the Bowl" (1975), Nebula Winners Twelve, p.It’s unpleasant to find that what you had thought of as moral scruples suddenly seem not quite so important in the face of a stack of money. "In the Bowl", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (December 1975), reprinted in The Persistence of Vision (1978).The jewel was a window on something unimaginable, a place where there were no questions and no emotions but a vast awareness. There was ancient Barsoom of my childhood fairy tales there was Middle Earth with brooding castles and sentient forests.
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