"No one grows up. That's one of the……" — Greg Egan
"No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be in… and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind of… glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not."
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23 Quotes by Greg Egan
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Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book…
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No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.
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It was almost noon when the plane touched down at the Triad airport on the outskirts of Greensboro. There was…
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On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.
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Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.
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Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers…
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If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going…
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You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible,…
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Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch…
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I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once…
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I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of…
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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
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