When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.

William Gibson
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  2. Everything I know, I know because of love. - Leo Tolstoy

  3. We are born to love as we are born to die, and between the heartbeats of those two great mysteries lies all the tangled undergrowth of our tiny lives. There is nowhere to go but through. And so we walk on, lost, and lost again,... - Tim Farrington

  4. She puts her hands on either side of my face, and the room falls away. I have never gotten so lost in a kiss before. And then, the space between us explodes. My heart keeps missing beats and my hands cannot bring her close enough... - Jodi Picoult

  5. Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. - Arthur Conan Doyle

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  1. To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.

  2. Farber says (in my recollection, anyway) the European (or classical) art, including film, is culturally assumed to be a monumental slab. It's about that slab, and how it's been shaped, or what's been carved on it. In "termite art" though, your slab has been wormholed...

  3. Voodou isn’t like that. It isn’t concerned with notions of salvation and transcendence. What it’s about is getting things done. You follow me? In out system, there are many gods, spirits. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Part of one big family, with all the virtues, all the vices....

  4. We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.

  5. Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

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