"That's the method: restructure the world we live……" — Frederik Pohl
"That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens."
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30 Quotes by Frederik Pohl
Frederik Pohl has 30 quotes on this site.
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That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in:…
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What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?
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You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.
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You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.
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I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning,…
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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change…
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The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do…
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The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means…
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I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.
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The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
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You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating,…
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In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that…
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one…
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War is what happens when language fails.
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As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say,…
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
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There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with…
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When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going…
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A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
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