Joe Haldeman |
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| Critics talk about art... artists talk about brushes. --"For White Hill," in Worldmakers, an sf anthology edited by Gardner Dozois | |
| I have no agenda to save humanity, no righteous or even selfish itch for that kind of power. All I desire is quite the reverse - immunity from power, from the powerful. An orderly, bookish form of existence, occasionally spiced. As I have had for most of my life. Now, I suppose, that's no longer possible. --Tools of the Trade |
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O.B. Hardison |
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| [...] The right map is the one that tells you the lies you need to know. --Disappearing Through the Skylight, p. 47 |
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Pat Hartley |
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| Commercial [flights are] like a big bus that could fall out of the sky at any moment. |
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| For a turnip, I am old. For a mountain, not so much. For vodka, I am well-aged. --with Alan P. Scott, 10/29/2002 |
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| Hit the schmooze button. --10/4/2002 |
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| A padded cell and a hug-myself-all-day sweater. --3/16/2005 |
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Chris Haynes |
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| Do you feel that God's asleep at the wheel? |
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Tami Heidi |
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| Don't be the Fun Police. |
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| If my refrigerator were running, I'd vote for it. |
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| "Please" and "Thank you" are the lubricants of social intercourse. |
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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| Any religion is free to preach and practice but the state and all individuals have an equal right to combat their doctrines by any peaceful means. --For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs, p. 217 (1939, published 2004) |
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| {Prefiguring the idea of memetics - in 1939!}: The layman doesn't realize that these non-lesional mental disorders can be as contagious as diptheria or whooping cough. More so, in fact. In the old days one man sometimes infected a whole nation, particularly after the advent of radio. --For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs, p. 222 (1939, published 2004) |
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| What I fear most are affirmative actions of sober and well-intentioned men, granting to government powers to do something that appears to need doing. --Professor Bernardo de la Paz, in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, well before September 11, 2001 |
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Herman Hesse |
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| It is treason to sacrifice love of truth, intellectual honesty, loyalty to the laws and methods of the mind, to any other interests, including those of one's country. --Magister Ludi |
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| Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. --Magister Ludi |
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| Only the weak are sent out on paths without perils. --Magister Ludi |
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Walter Hickel |
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| You can't just let Nature run wild. --the governor of Alaska, as quoted in the Los Angeles Times |
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Robyn Hitchcock |
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| I know who wrote the Book of Love - it was an idiot! --Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians, "Freeze" |
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Peter Hoeg |
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| Gentlemen, you need have no fears for the Good Old Days; we'll start turning them out again just as soon as demand is great enough. --Carl Laurids, The History of Danish Dreams, p. 220 |
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| On this night her loneliness was transformed into energy and a sense of how everything is connected. --The History of Danish Dreams, p. 169 |
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Bruce T. Holmes |
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| [...] it's a poor solution which limits our freedom rather than nullifying their violence. --Anvil of the Heart, quite out of context |
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Victor Hugo |
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| The peculiarity of prudery is to multiply sentinels, in direct proportion as the fortress is less threatened. --Les Miserables |
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David Hume |
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| It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest human passions, a restless appetite for applause. --"Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion" |
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Aldous Huxley |
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| One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder, and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies. --Brave New World, Chapter 12 |
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Chrissie Hynde |
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| When you own a big chunk of the bloody third world The babies just come with the scenery. --Pretenders, "Middle of the Road" |
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