"Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity."

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Source : "In defense of science fiction" by John Clute, www.cnn.com. May 26, 1999.

John Clute

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“.....joy runs deeper than despair.”
“Our body is a cenacle, a monstrance: through its crystal the world should see God.”
“I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.”
“We cannot better assure our eternal happiness than by living and dying in the service of the poor, in the arms of Providence, and with genuine renouncement of ourselves in order to follow Jesus Christ.”

Source : Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr
“I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that's it.”
“After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.”
“Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.”

Source : Herman Wouk (1988). “War and Remembrance”, Pocket
“In life's journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive.”

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