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title: "1 Fall Flat Quotes By Greg Egan"
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> [If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over agaain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-egan/if-we-spend-all-our-time-gazing-at-the-wonders-ahead-without/)

[Greg Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-egan/)

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## More by Greg Egan

> [“Paul closed his eyes and turned his face to the sun. In spite of everything, it was hard not to take solace from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-egan/paul-closed-his-eyes-and-turned-his-face-to-the-sun-in-spite-of/)

[Greg Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-egan/)

> [“I was recruited by the dead,’ Zak said. ‘Not in any rush to join them in their silence, but from the urgent need to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-egan/i-was-recruited-by-the-dead-zak-said-not-in-any-rush-to-join-them-in/)

[Greg Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-egan/)

> [“You have to be doubly foolish to be a Satanist,” Stoney muttered. “Doubly?” “Not only do you need to believe all the nonsense of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-egan/you-have-to-be-doubly-foolish-to-be-a-satanist-stoney-muttered-doubly/)

[Greg Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-egan/)

> [“Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ physical resources, to wipe them out for fear of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-egan/fleshers-used-to-spin-fantasies-about-aliens-arriving-to-conquer/)

[Greg Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-egan/)

> [Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-egan/australian-sf-book-publishing-has-undergone-a-boom-recently-and/)

[Greg Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-egan/)

> [“If the technology improves sufficiently, the environmental impact of the wealthiest Copy could end up being less than that of the most ascetic living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-egan/if-the-technology-improves-sufficiently-the-environmental-impact-of/)

[Greg Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-egan/)

> [I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-egan/i-m-rarely-grabbed-by-anything-the-way-i-was-when-i-was-10-years/)

[Greg Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-egan/)

> [If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-egan/if-we-spend-all-our-time-gazing-at-the-wonders-ahead-without/)

[Greg Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-egan/)

> [“The Transmuters had built a structure that dwarfed universes, but touched each one only lightly. They hadn’t turned whole worlds to rubble, they hadn’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-egan/the-transmuters-had-built-a-structure-that-dwarfed-universes-but/)

[Greg Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-egan/)

> [“I have no strength now to speak of my loss of strength.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-egan/i-have-no-strength-now-to-speak-of-my-loss-of-strength/)

[Greg Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-egan/)

> [“The only way up is up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-egan/the-only-way-up-is-up/)

[Greg Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-egan/)

> [“My earliest memories are of CP4 — that's a Kähler manifold that looks locally like a vector space with four complex directions, though the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-egan/my-earliest-memories-are-of-cp4-that-s-a-k-hler-manifold-that-looks/)

[Greg Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-egan/)

> [“We’ve been half right about a lot of things, but there’s something missing from our theories, something whose nature we haven’t even guessed yet.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-egan/we-ve-been-half-right-about-a-lot-of-things-but-there-s-something/)

[Greg Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-egan/)

> [A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-egan/a-story-in-asimov-s-is-read-by-hundreds-of-thousands-of-people/)

[Greg Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-egan/)

> [“Imagine a universe entirely without structure, without shape, without connections. A cloud of microscopic events, like fragments of space-time … except that there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-egan/imagine-a-universe-entirely-without-structure-without-shape-without/)

[Greg Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-egan/)

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