"Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy"

-- Michael Swanwick

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“We think that if we get tested, that means you have to have HIV. Or we think that just by knowing someone with HIV, we're going to get HIV or because he's gay or she's a lesbian or whatever. This false information has been put out there and it's created this stigma that stops us from going to find out if we're infected. The truth is it doesn't matter who you are, if you're having sex, you need to be getting tested, plain and simple.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.”
“Say what you have to say, and then stop.”

Source : Rudolf Flesch (1949). “The Art of Readable Writing”
“It's rare that a company has an opportunity to forever transform the ways in which people interact with the world and communicate with each other, but that is exactly what we plan to do with Valve,”
“The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie”

Source : "Keeping it (un)real". Interview with Neil Gaiman, www.wired.com. July 1, 2005.
“What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?”
“I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.”
“When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.”

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