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Thomas M. Disch has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and…
• Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful
• Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements…
• A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.
• The gods, after all, are only human, and once their rage has been placated they are perfectly capable of acts of mercy…
• America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as…
• Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.
• Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register…
• Sameness is what marketers want us to want.
• Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.
• Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror.
• Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known

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