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> [“This book is dedicated to all good teachers everywhere, most particularly those of the William Levering School and Central High School in Philadelphia, to whom more is owed than can ever be repaid.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-swanwick/this-book-is-dedicated-to-all-good-teachers-everywhere-most/)

[Michael Swanwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-swanwick/)

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## More by Michael Swanwick

> [This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-swanwick/this-was-the-ultimate-form-of-ostentation-among-technology-freaks-to/)

[Michael Swanwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-swanwick/)

> [I'm going to move to Theory someday. Everything works there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-swanwick/i-m-going-to-move-to-theory-someday-everything-works-there/)

[Michael Swanwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-swanwick/)

> [“A hippogriff flew past, trailing laughter. It came so close to Will that he could smell its scent, a pungent mixture of horse sweat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-swanwick/a-hippogriff-flew-past-trailing-laughter-it-came-so-close-to-will/)

[Michael Swanwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-swanwick/)

> [It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-swanwick/it-s-not-the-principles-that-kill-you-in-the-end-it-s-the-books/)

[Michael Swanwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-swanwick/)

> [Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our genre exists…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-swanwick/purdom-has-created-a-major-body-of-work-thoughtful-humane-intelligent/)

[Michael Swanwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-swanwick/)

> [“The mechanism thus created periodically acts out post-modern notions of cosmology and then deconstructs itself. It has met with great admiration and no little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-swanwick/the-mechanism-thus-created-periodically-acts-out-post-modern-notions/)

[Michael Swanwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-swanwick/)

> [You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them aside in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-swanwick/you-see-characters-in-books-do-not-read-books-oh-they-snap-them-shut/)

[Michael Swanwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-swanwick/)

> [“Silent, unseen, small cousin of death, Born this instant, closer than breath, Killer of thought, assassin of dreams, Memory's surgeon, the end of your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-swanwick/silent-unseen-small-cousin-of-death-born-this-instant-closer-than/)

[Michael Swanwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-swanwick/)

> [Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-swanwick/gene-wolfe-is-the-greatest-writer-in-the-english-language-alive-today/)

[Michael Swanwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-swanwick/)

> [Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-swanwick/writing-is-a-matter-of-finding-the-appropriate-balance-of-dinosaurs/)

[Michael Swanwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-swanwick/)

> [“Perfection is death,' Anastasia said. 'The world is imperfect, but if it weren't, who would love it?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-swanwick/perfection-is-death-anastasia-said-the-world-is-imperfect-but-if-it/)

[Michael Swanwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-swanwick/)

> [“This book is dedicated to all good teachers everywhere, most particularly those of the William Levering School and Central High School in Philadelphia, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-swanwick/this-book-is-dedicated-to-all-good-teachers-everywhere-most/)

[Michael Swanwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-swanwick/)

> [The bureaucrat fell from the sky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-swanwick/the-bureaucrat-fell-from-the-sky/)

[Michael Swanwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-swanwick/)

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