Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 15

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• To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.

  Frank Herbert

  Dream, Sleep, Wish

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.380, Penguin

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• The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.

  Frank Herbert

  Belief, Shakes, Supreme

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.55, Penguin

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• Grief is the price of victory.

  Frank Herbert

  Grief, Victory, Aging

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.

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  Black, Remember, Blind

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.183, Penguin

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• Money to a writer is time to write.

  Frank Herbert

  Writing

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• When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was concerned only with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned required a degree of concentration I had never before experienced.

  Frank Herbert

  Book, Writing, Years

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.8, Penguin

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• I am not the kind of person I want to be.

  Frank Herbert

  Want, Kind, Persons

  Frank Herbert (2012). “Dune: The Gateway Collection”, p.591, Hachette UK

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• Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

  Frank Herbert

  Father, Errors, Principles

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.243, Penguin

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• Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Hero, Problem

  "Dune Genesis". "Omni", Vol. 2, No. 2, (p. 72), July 1980.

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• A good companion is one you wouldn't mind dying with.

  Frank Herbert

  Mind, Dying, Companion

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• But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

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  Well Known, Wells, Repression

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.328, Penguin

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• I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To them I make my vow: I will be resolute and make an art of government; I will balance my inherited past and become a perfect storehouse of my relic memories. And I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist.

  Frank Herbert

  Art, Memories, Winter

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.61, Penguin

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• There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.

  Frank Herbert

  God, Men, Separation

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.16, Penguin

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• The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.

  Frank Herbert

  Mind, Humans, Human Mind

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.151, Penguin

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• I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?

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  Hands, People, One Day

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.311, Penguin

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• Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Block

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.28, Penguin

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• What does a mirror look at?

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  Mirrors, Doe, Looks

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.178, Penguin

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• Law is the ultimate science.

  Frank Herbert

  Law, Ultimate

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.198, Penguin

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• A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.

  Frank Herbert

  Rabbits, Killers, Kind

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.282, Penguin

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• You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

  Frank Herbert

  Writing, Attention, Ifs

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.9, Penguin

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• Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life, and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous judgements, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke.

  Frank Herbert

  Loyalty, Son, Loss

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.115, Penguin

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• Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

  Frank Herbert

  Training, Language, Delusion

  "Whipping Star". Book by Frank Herbert, "Gowachin Aphorism"; p. 111, 1969.

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• Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.

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  Government, Needs, Flaws

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.170, Penguin

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• Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.

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  Growth, Amount

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.126, Penguin

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• That path leads ever down into stagnation.

  Frank Herbert

  Path, Stagnation

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.194, Penguin

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