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"Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything."
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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."
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"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."
"Most of us believe outside situations shape our attitudes when, in fact, it is our view of the situations that shape our attitudes."
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"Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?"
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"We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories."
"The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate."
"I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world."
"This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read."
"See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers."
"The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive."
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