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John Sladek

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

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Amber Hurdle

"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

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Amber Hurdle

"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."

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Amber Hurdle

"That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest."

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Amber Hurdle

"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."

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Amber Hurdle

"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."

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Amber Hurdle

"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."

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Amber Hurdle

"I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."

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John Sladek
"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."

Science

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John Sladek
"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."

Being

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John Sladek
"To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example."

Work

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John Sladek
"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."

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John Sladek
"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."

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John Sladek
"I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear."

Time

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John Sladek
"People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers."

People

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John Sladek
"I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read."

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John Sladek
"The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive."

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John Sladek
"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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