"What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or……" — Frederik Pohl
"What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?"
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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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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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If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write…
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As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New…
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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that…
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Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form…
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness…
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God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The…
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