"It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff."

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Source : "Octavia Butler Set a Rare Standard in Sci-Fi Listen Queue". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. February 27, 2006.

Greg Bear

#People Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.”
“To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera with him whenever he could,”
“I never had one day that I didn't want to be on the ice, because I always had an objective for that day. I had a rigorous plan and schedule in place that I had to adhere to. It was a step-by-step process of slowly but surely inching toward the Olympic Games and using every day as a series of goals to be accomplished.”
“We want to ensure a multilateral development of society, the thriving of all sides of social life, economy, science and culture, the improvement of management, the moulding of the new man and the promotion of socialist ethics and equity.”

Source : Nicolae Ceaușescu (1983). “Nicolae Ceaușescu, builder of modern Romania and international statesman”, Pergamon
“Love is not a given, it's a state that we work toward and experience gradually.”
“Everything around me makes me miss you.”
“I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.”
“And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.”

Source : 'Down among the Dead Men' (c.1700)

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