"Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism."

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David G. Hartwell

#Fiction Quotes #Century Quotes #Characteristics Quotes

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”

Source : "Der Spiegel", October 17, 1988.
“You knew when a woman loves you like that, she can love you with every card in the deck and then pull a knife across your throat the next morning.”
“America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.”

Source : Invisible Man epilogue (1952)
“I live in L.A. so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent.”
“The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was the worst political and economic mistake in American history in the last 100 years. China went into the World Trade Organization and agreed to play by certain rules. Instead, they are illegally subsidizing their exports, manipulating their currency, stealing all of our intellectual property, using sweatshops, using pollution havens. What happens is, our businesses and workers are playing that game with two hands tied behind their back.”
“I learned that I enjoy directing a lot more than I enjoy writing, which is interesting, because writing is lonely and infamous basically.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.”
“In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.”

Source : Wendell Berry, Morris Allen Grubbs (2007). “Conversations with Wendell Berry”, p.177, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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