"The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors."

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Vernor Vinge

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“It is true that, when an entitlement begins to be enjoyed by people, they like to keep it.”

Source : "Republicans Take Aim at Health Reform Reconciliation Bill". "PBS News Hour", www.pbs.org. March 22, 2010.
“Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, science and skills depend upon it. Newton traced his discoveries to it. It builds bridges, opens new worlds, heals diseases, carries on the business of the world. Without it taste is useless, and the beauties of literature unobserved.”
“I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.”
“Freedom keeps us soaring, but quarreling destroys our ability to fly.”

Source : Victor Manuel Rivera (2010). “In Search of True Freedom”, p.40, Xulon Press
“My music is not modern, it is merely badly played”

Source : "Immanence and Transcendence" by Gérard Genette, 1997.
“Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself in public by any thought, word, or deed, but communicates through subterranean depths of the imaginary with dreams as old as the world itself?”
“There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.”
“I am frozen musically somewhere around 2004.”

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