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M. John Harrison has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in…
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Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we…
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Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It…
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Perception of a state is not the state.
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Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be…
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At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at…
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I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes
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SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive;…
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Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.
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Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.
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Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been;…
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Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and…
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it…
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Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.
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When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an…
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men…
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Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
— Victor Borge
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I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the…
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Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.
— Jack Butler Yeats
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Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he…
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I…
— Jack Handey
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At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at…
— M. John Harrison
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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it…
— Edward Everett Hale
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