quotes about Quails

Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.
-- Octavia Butler

Source : Octavia E. Butler (1998). “Parable of the Talents: A Novel”, p.187, Seven Stories Press

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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
-- Vernor Vinge

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