Laura Anne Gilman famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.
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I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.
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Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.
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Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.
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Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone's got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn't mean it's and unfriendly place -- just busy and preoccupied. Personally, I love it. I'm a social creature but there are times and places you just don't want to do more than grunt at your fellow human being.
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Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.
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Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.
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The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.
-- Laura Anne Gilman
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.
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Great liars are also great magicians.
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
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When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
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There's a bait and switch going on here because the critics want the textbooks to question whether evolution occurred. And of course they don't because scientists don't question whether evolution occurred.
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I found myself doing extraordinary things that arent in the textbooks. Then the IMF asked the U.S. to please print money. The whole world is now practicing what they have been saying I should not. I decided that God had been on my side and had come to vindicate me.
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Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.
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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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