"Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation."

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Source : Introduction to the Everyman's Library edition of The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov, 2010.

Michael Dirda

#Art Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Science Fiction Quotes

“Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.”
“There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.”
“Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 20, 2004.
“Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.”
“Good fiction creates its own reality.”
“The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best.”
“The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education - just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office - and cannot possibly be separated from political control.”

Source : Frank Chodorov (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.
“No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they’ll see tomorrow.”

Source : "WhatsApp, Bought by Facebook for $19 Billion, Promotes a Radical Anti-Corporate Message" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. February 20, 2014.

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