"Historically, I guess that's how science fiction works: you start by using aliens to think the unthinkable Â— and then, eventually, another writer, having grown a little more comfortable with the earlier notion, brings it into the human."

-- Samuel R. Delany

#Thinking Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Littles Quotes

“One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.”
“Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?”

Source : Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Everything is legit onstage. You can go crazy. I can express my anger. I can cry. Whoa, this is the coolest place!”
“Iâ€™ve concluded, after many years, that my mind works by process of elimination. Problem is, it hasnâ€™t eliminated anything yet.”
“The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here.”
“I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.”
“A chic home makes you happy and a happy home makes you chic!”
“I love kissing. If I could kiss all day, I would. I canâ€™t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because thereâ€™s no end to it. You can kiss forever. You can kiss yourself into oblivion. You can kiss all over the body. You can kiss yourself to sleep. And when you wake up, you canâ€™t stop thinking about kissing. Dammit, I canâ€™t get anything done because Iâ€™m so busy thinking about kissing. Kissing is madness! But itâ€™s absolute paradise, if you can find a good kisser.”

Source : "Sufjan Stevens, Robyn, Hot Chip, Blood Orange, Phosphorescent on Arthur Russell Tribute" by Evan Minsker, pitchfork.com. July 15, 2014.

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