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> [“Yeye shifted in her seat as Roma stared down at her angrily. “There are inter-realm laws I must abide by, that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dew-platt/yeye-shifted-in-her-seat-as-roma-stared-down-at-her-angrily-there-are/)

[Dew Platt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dew-platt/)

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> [To me, the amazing thing is that so much that was science fiction back then, political fiction, today is reality. We have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-takei/to-me-the-amazing-thing-is-that-so-much-that-was-science-fiction-back/)

[George Takei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-takei/)

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> [We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-f-kennedy-jr/we-are-living-in-a-science-fiction-nightmare-where-children-are/)

[Robert F. Kennedy, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-f-kennedy-jr/)

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> [I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shatner/i-think-that-prog-rock-is-the-science-fiction-of-music-science/)

[William Shatner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shatner/)

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> [Science fiction fans are the smartest fans in television. They just are. They're just so smart, and they know so much detail…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/azita-ghanizada/science-fiction-fans-are-the-smartest-fans-in-television-they-just/)

[Azita Ghanizada](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/azita-ghanizada/)

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> [A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-reed/a-favorite-science-fiction-writer-of-mine-is-william-faulkner-it-was/)

[Robert Reed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-reed/)

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> [“Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-m-forster-2/few-travelled-in-these-days-for-thanks-to-the-advance-of-science-the/)

[E.M. Forster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-m-forster-2/)

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> [Blindsight is excellent. It's state-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one. Like a C…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-asher/blindsight-is-excellent-it-s-state-of-the-art-science-fiction-smart/)

[Neal Asher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-asher/)

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> [If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-sterling/if-poets-are-the-unacknowledged-legislators-of-the-world-science/)

[Bruce Sterling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-sterling/)

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> [“She was petrified now but I simply slung her over my shoulder and made for my bunk. My 2IC who had caught…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-w-murison/she-was-petrified-now-but-i-simply-slung-her-over-my-shoulder-and/)

[J.W. Murison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-w-murison/)

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> [“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/if-you-want-to-write-if-you-want-to-create-you-must-be-the-most/)

[Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/)

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> [“Do not stare directly into his eyes!” she warned, in an accent I couldn’t place. “Why not?” I said, but she was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-due/do-not-stare-directly-into-his-eyes-she-warned-in-an-accent-i-couldn/)

[Richard Due](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-due/)

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> [“Speaking of boxes... Do you know that thought experiment with the cat in the box with the poison? Theory requires the cat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ted-kosmatka/speaking-of-boxes-do-you-know-that-thought-experiment-with-the-cat-in/)

[Ted Kosmatka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ted-kosmatka/)

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> [“I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-di-justo/i-don-t-want-to-be-human-i-want-to-see-gamma-rays-i-want-to-hear-x/)

[Patrick Di Justo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-di-justo/)

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> [Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-schroeder/peter-watts-has-taken-the-core-myths-of-the-first-contact-story-and/)

[Karl Schroeder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-schroeder/)

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> [“Geeks are not the world’s rowdiest people. We’re quiet and introspective, and usually more comfortable communing with our keyboards or a good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-korra-ti/geeks-are-not-the-world-s-rowdiest-people-we-re-quiet-and/)

[Angela Korra'ti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-korra-ti/)

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> [“He pointed to another number, changing as rapidly as the first, but on a lower trajectory; it rose to a high of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-stanley-robinson/he-pointed-to-another-number-changing-as-rapidly-as-the-first-but-on/)

[Kim Stanley Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-stanley-robinson/)

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> [Most of what I do is science fiction. Some of the things I do are fantasy. I don't like the labels, they're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavia-butler/most-of-what-i-do-is-science-fiction-some-of-the-things-i-do-are/)

[Octavia Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavia-butler/)

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> [“The single word that directs a person’s fate and ultimately the fates of those she comes in contact with is of course…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-leckie/the-single-word-that-directs-a-person-s-fate-and-ultimately-the-fates/)

[Ann Leckie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-leckie/)

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> [A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/a-good-writer-should-be-able-to-write-comedic-work-that-made-you/)

[Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/)

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> [“Struggling transforms her captor into a Chinese finger trap. She’s suffocating. Sucking in air without relief. Her lungs expand. Contract. Expand. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-kreitzer/struggling-transforms-her-captor-into-a-chinese-finger-trap-she-s/)

[Laura Kreitzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-kreitzer/)

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> [It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gibson/it-had-also-been-my-belief-since-i-started-writing-fiction-that/)

[William Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-gibson/)

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> [“Today, a science fiction writer looking for a futuristic tale of silicon dominance would not pick upon the chemistry of silicon so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-d-barrow/today-a-science-fiction-writer-looking-for-a-futuristic-tale-of/)

[John D. Barrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-d-barrow/)

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> [“Landon drops the bloody knife and stares at Summer like he doesn’t even know her anymore. The truth is, she’ll never be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-kreitzer/landon-drops-the-bloody-knife-and-stares-at-summer-like-he-doesn-t/)

[Laura Kreitzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-kreitzer/)

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> [“I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/i-define-science-fiction-as-the-art-of-the-possible-fantasy-is-the-2/)

[Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/)

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> [I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/i-wish-you-a-wrestling-match-with-your-creative-muse-that-will-last-a/)

[Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/)

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> [“I memorized all of “John Carter” and “Tarzan,” and sat on my grandparents’ front lawn repeating the stories to anyone who would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/i-memorized-all-of-john-carter-and-tarzan-and-sat-on-my-grandparents/)

[Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/)

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> [The things that I've enjoyed most are not really science fiction. They are not much fun to make because there are so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-hurt/the-things-that-i-ve-enjoyed-most-are-not-really-science-fiction-they/)

[John Hurt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-hurt/)

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> [“In the film Death and the Maiden, there is a point during which Sigourney Weaver has duct-taped Ben Kingsley to a chair…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lidia-yuknavitch/in-the-film-death-and-the-maiden-there-is-a-point-during-which/)

[Lidia Yuknavitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lidia-yuknavitch/)

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> [“Whatever you do, please don’t do anything reckless. These are very powerful people, some of which are very dangerous.” She hesitates, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tessa-clare/whatever-you-do-please-don-t-do-anything-reckless-these-are-very/)

[Tessa Clare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tessa-clare/)

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> [ Science fiction \[is\] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-mosley/science-fiction-is-the-kind-of-writing-that-prepares-us-for-the/)

[Walter Mosley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-mosley/)

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> [“disrupts socio-technological balance, all scientific advancement due to intelligence overcoming compensating for limitations, can't carry a load so invent wheel, can't catch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mordin-solus/disrupts-socio-technological-balance-all-scientific-advancement-due/)

[Mordin Solus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mordin-solus/)

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> [“Presidential campaigns are on the verge of turning into media contests between master operators of the Internet. What once had been substantive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-kissinger/presidential-campaigns-are-on-the-verge-of-turning-into-media/)

[Henry Kissinger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-kissinger/)

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> [My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainn-wilson/my-dad-was-always-such-a-frustrated-artist-he-always-worked-very-hard-2/)

[Rainn Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainn-wilson/)

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> [“Have you ever played Maximum Happy Imagination?" "Sounds like a Japanese game show." Kat straightens her shoulders. "Okay, we're going to play.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-sloan/have-you-ever-played-maximum-happy-imagination-sounds-like-a-japanese/)

[Robin Sloan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-sloan/)

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> [ “\[P\]eople only make decisions based on what they know. You can have everyone in the country vote freely and democratically and still… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-hickman/p-eople-only-make-decisions-based-on-what-they-know-you-can-have/)

[Tracy Hickman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-hickman/)

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> [I tried to get the word out to people who are information hubs in their communities, because they could propagate the call…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nalo-hopkinson/i-tried-to-get-the-word-out-to-people-who-are-information-hubs-in/)

[Nalo Hopkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nalo-hopkinson/)

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> [“Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/maybe-none-of-this-is-about-control-maybe-it-isn-t-really-about-who/)

[Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/)

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> [“His life was now the life of a collector, and that gave it meaning. Evening after evening he would count and arrange…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karel-capek/his-life-was-now-the-life-of-a-collector-and-that-gave-it-meaning/)

[Karel Čapek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karel-capek/)

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> [“There are cultures on Earth that are more alien than some of the aliens in SF. More extensive quote: "the theme of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-asaro/there-are-cultures-on-earth-that-are-more-alien-than-some-of-the/)

[Catherine Asaro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-asaro/)

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## Top authors on Science fiction

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                        "text": "“Yeye shifted in her seat as Roma stared down at her angrily. “There are inter-realm laws I must abide by, that the soul must abide by as well when it comes to an appointed manifestation. Whoever was in the world before can not go into the new world. That identity must be forsaken. It must—” “Forsaken or forgotten?” Roma barked. “Forsaken,” Yeye answered. “Unless you’re putting this soul into a blank state like that of a child, it can not be forgotten. It has to be forsaken. That’s the rule or you get no soul.” “So you’re telling me that this soul will remember but will never be able to be that person it was?” Roma asked. “I’m telling you a new memory must be formed with absolutely no reference to the previous.” “What the freak is that?” Roma asked, visibly agitated. “You can form new memories while holding on to preexisting ones.” Yeye stood. “Yes Roma, you’re right. But you can also form new memories while you are unable to access the previous ones.” “Such it would have a drive that belongs to it but would never be able to access or be forbidden to access it?” Roma asked. Yeye’s voice was low. “I’m afraid that’s the way it is going to have to be.” Roma shook his head vehemently. “Exactly which way is that Yeye. Exactly which way is that in common terms?” Yeye spoke in her most resolute tone yet. “You will never be able to know whether or not this soul is Mara.” Roma gained silence, breathing in and out rapidly. “We’re getting out of this damned Zharfar,” he said as he stormed out.”",
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                        "text": "To me, the amazing thing is that so much that was science fiction back then, political fiction, today is reality. We have indeed a spacecraft called an international space station. And we have the diversity of this planet working on that ship, including Americans and Russians working side by side. I think the imagineers are the ones that set the goal. And the inventors and the technicians see that as a goal to work toward, or the political scientists and the diplomats. And eventually, that's arrived at.",
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                        "text": "I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look like and how we'll get there, and yet there's always a central theme of humanity, or there should be. Progressive rock has the same concept of exploration into the parts of the music world that hasn't been explored.",
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                        "text": "Science fiction fans are the smartest fans in television. They just are. They're just so smart, and they know so much detail and information. They're a part of the story and they inform your character, as well. We all listen to the fans, and we love their feedback and the attention they give us.",
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                        "text": "A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and I've never quite been able to shake it. This is facetious, on one level at least. There are telepaths in As I Lay Dying. But I think the most compelling thing for me is there are moments with him where I just feel these are not humans talking to each other. These are some hyper-intelligent, yet-to-be-born organisms. The way they look at the past without having any loss of knowledge – everything that ever happened is still here.",
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                        "text": "“Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury? Why return to Shrewsbury when it would all be like Peking? Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul.”",
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                        "text": "Blindsight is excellent. It's state-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one. Like a C J Cherryh book it makes you feel the danger of the hostile environment (or lack of one) out there. And it plays with some fascinating possibilities in human development, and some disconcerting ideas about human consciousness. What else can I say? Thanks for giving me the privilege of reading this.",
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                        "text": "If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.",
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                        "text": "“She was petrified now but I simply slung her over my shoulder and made for my bunk. My 2IC who had caught the whole show approached. ‘Sir do you think it’s fair, you have banned all the men from having sex yet here you are about to indulge your base nature.’ I swung up an arm, ‘tell them to help themselves, there are plenty to go round.’ He paled when he realised that I meant the females, ‘I will tell them sir.’ ‘Be sure to Peter, I don’t want to have to repopulate the whole human race by myself now do I.’ ‘It doesn’t bear thinking about sir.”",
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                        "text": "“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”",
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                        "text": "“Do not stare directly into his eyes!” she warned, in an accent I couldn’t place. “Why not?” I said, but she was already too late. I was staring directly into his eyes too. “Because they are dreamy, and endless, and magical. And then when you learn what a terrible boy he is, your heart will turn into a black husk of doom.” I blinked off the spell of the boy’s eyes. “Wait, what?” —Nimet Simit and Willa Snap, conversing on the power of Ravenlock Sward's eyes.”",
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                        "text": "“Speaking of boxes... Do you know that thought experiment with the cat in the box with the poison? Theory requires the cat to be both alive and dead until observed. Well, I actually performed the experiment. Dozens of times. The bad news is reality doesn't exist. The good news is we have a new cat graveyard.”",
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                        "text": "“I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to—I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I’m a machine, and I can know much more. —John Cavil, Cylon Model Number One, “No Exit”",
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                        "text": "It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science fiction is old, you can only read it as being pretty much about the moment in which it was written. But it seemed to me that the toolkit that science fiction had given me when I started working had become the toolkit of a kind of literary naturalism that could be applied to an inherently incredible present.",
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                        "text": "“Landon drops the bloody knife and stares at Summer like he doesn’t even know her anymore. The truth is, she’ll never be the girl she was seven months ago. Too much has happened. Too much has changed. “Why’d you do that?” Summer cries. “To save you,” he says. But there’s nothing left to save.”",
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                        "text": "I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories - science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.",
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                        "text": "The things that I've enjoyed most are not really science fiction. They are not much fun to make because there are so many toys involved. They are fun for directors who like toys, like Ridley Scott, but they are not a lot of fun to make. A lot of hanging around, changing this and that.",
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