"A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told."

-- Jamais Cascio

#Fiction Quotes #Stories Quotes #Might Quotes

“A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws the reader's eye from its usual groove into a new way of seeing things.”
“Many people live in a self-imposed prison and don't even know it.”

Source : Lee L. Jampolsky (2011). “Healing the Addictive Personality: Freeing Yourself from Addictive Patterns and Relationships”, p.105, Celestial Arts
“For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned”
“It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.”

Source : "Are guns or society to blame? Lawmakers search for answers", www.cnn.com. April 23, 1999.
“Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. Part of what we always did was have sex and fight about it and break each otherâ€™s hearts. I guess thereâ€™s other kinds of love too. Great friendships. Working together. But poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. Youâ€™re always home.”
“I think the way NOW characterized Smith Barney is disgraceful. I am appalled that an organization like that would not have reserved judgment (until) making their own investigation.”
“The turning point in history will be the moment man becomes aware that the only god of man is man himself.”

Source : Henri de Lubac (1995). “The Drama of Atheist Humanism”, p.30, Ignatius Press
“I didn’t realize that pretending to be this ‘Hills Heidi,’ this spoiled rich girl who I wasn’t, would almost destroy me.”

Source : "Heidi Montag on Surviving Reality TV Scandal: Spencer and I Were Never Those People on ‘The Hills’". Interview with Cory Lopez, www.celebuzz.com. August 3, 2012.

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