"The bureaucrat fell from the sky."

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Source : "Michael Swanwick: Twenty Questions From Lynne Jamneck". Interview with Lynne Jamneck, strangehorizons.com. November 17, 2003.

Michael Swanwick

“Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“He who does not work, will not eat”
“Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.”
“Passion, friendship, love, loyalty, trust . . . if you found the right person . . . you really could have it all.”

Source : S.C. Stephens (2013). “Reckless”, p.369, Simon and Schuster
“Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.”
“But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door. This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds. The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.”
“Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life; shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service to remind him of their beauty?”
“I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.”

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