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

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

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About Walter M. Miller

Walter Michael Miller, Jr. (23 January 1923 – 9 January 1996) was an American science fiction writer, most famous for his novel A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for best novel.

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Birth Name: Walter Michael Miller Jr.
Alternative Names: Walter M. Miller, Jr. Walter Michael Miller, Jr.
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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 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?

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