"I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it."

-- Bruce Sterling

#Writing Quotes #Research Quotes #Nonfiction Quotes

“How competitive can you be without losing your discipline?”
“I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.”
“There are two miracles in Canadian history. The first is the survival of French Canada, and the second is the survival of Canada.”
“The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions, and thus the cry in the poem may come to sound louder, more urgent, more real than the cry in the street outside. The death in the novel may move us more potently than the death in the next room. Thus there may be a covert, betraying link between the cultivation of aesthetic response and the potential of personal inhumanity.”
“Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.”
“We must not be afraid of solidarity; rather let us make all we have and are available to God.”
“History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.”
“Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.”

Source : Playboy, May 2005.

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