13 Quotes & Sayings By Stephen Baxter

Stephen Baxter is a poet, writer and translator, and a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for his small press poetry collection, The Last Time I Lied. His writing has been published in numerous magazines, and he has translated work from Chinese, Czech, Hungarian, Italian and Russian. As a translator, Baxter has worked on books by W.G Read more

Sebald and Rainer Maria Rilke. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.

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The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end. Stephen Baxter
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A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming. Stephen Baxter
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I have a vision of a Galaxy overrun by mankind from Core to rim. Of four hundred billion stars each enslaved to the rhythm of Earth's day, Earth's year. I have a vision of a trillion planets pulsing to the beat of a human heart. Stephen Baxter
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Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science fiction really isn't about the future. It's about change and present-day concerns Stephen Baxter
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This is a strange situation, sir. Perhaps imagination is what we need. Stephen Baxter
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If I was a cynic I would be wondering if sooner or later some charismatic douche-bag might stomp all over this Little House on the Prairie dream of yours. Stephen Baxter
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A brief life burns brightly. Stephen Baxter
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Well, don't stand about like that, man; if you're no use you're certainly no ornament. Bring that in and tell me what it says. Stephen Baxter
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Earth stuff, Mars boy. Stephen Baxter
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Every world needed an artist. Stephen Baxter
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Life gets boring with only humans to talk to. Stephen Baxter
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In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box. Stephen Baxter