"As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind."

-- John Brunner

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“I don't listen to my own stuff unless I've been drinking a lot.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Weâ€™re never gonna understand women. Theyâ€™re way too complex. Youâ€™ve got too many variables to consider. PMS, bad hair days, miscellaneous mood swings . . . thereâ€™s no way to tell whatâ€™s causing their attitude. - Mike”
“Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.”
“Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.”
“It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.”
“Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.”
“I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.”
“We suffer each other to have each other a while.”

Source : Li-Young Lee (1990). “The City in which I Love You: Poems”, p.68, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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