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Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Walter Michael Miller Jr. (January 23, 1923 – January 9, 1996) was an American science fiction writer. He is known primarily for A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), the only novel he published in his lifetime. Prior to its publication he was a prolific writer of short stories.

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For no change comes calmly over the world.

Calmly, Change, World

Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.

Awhile, Errors, Men, Seize, Taste, Thinking

That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

Fat, Fats, Past, Sin, Sins, Thought

What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there's no longer much meaning in asking whose ax is bloodier. Evil, on evil, piled on evil. Was there any justification in our 'police action' in space? How can we know? Certainly there was no justification for what they did - or was there? We only know what that thing says, and that thing is a captive. The Asian radio has to say what will least displease it's government; ours has to say what will least displease our fine patriotic opinionated rabble, which is what, coincidentally, the government wants it to say anyhow, so where's the difference?

Answered, Bloodier, Differences, Hate, Patriotic, Rape

Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right now, right here, right this very instant, maybe.

Away, Decades, Destiny, Instant, Right, Speak

Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.

Human, Listen, Meaningless, Pain, Sacrifice, Self

One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

Embarrassed, Person, Should, Speak, Third Person

Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the core of the Temple, it had also scorched the life from a city, this night, and spewed its venom over the land. How strange of God to speak from a burning bush, and of Man to make a symbol of Heaven into a symbol of Hell.

City, Fire, God, Men, Night

The wild black scavengers of the skies laid their eggs in season and lovingly fed their young. They soared high over prairies and mountains and plains, searching for the fulfillment of that share of life's destiny which was theirs according to the plan of Nature. Their philosophers demonstrated by unaided 15 Animals reason alone that the Supreme Cathartes aura regnans had created the world especially for buzzards. They worshipped him with hearty appetites for many centuries.

Animal, Destiny, Fulfillment, Reason, Sky, Soared

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

Bestow, Godhood, Infinite, Men, Wells

Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.

Denial, Doubt, History, Powerful, Tools

I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.

Devious, Father, Littles, Mad, Sanity

. . . . to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

Abuse, Pride, Reasons, Responsibility, Vanity

Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.

Bless, Father, Lizard, Lizards

Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.

Assertion, Consistency, Events, Faith, Sun

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

Deathlike, Doe, Evil, Living, Tire