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“Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question received wisdom, to challenge 'facts' 'everybody' knows to be true, and to imagine worlds and characters worthy of our rich historical heritage and our complex selves.”

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I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that.

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People who are ambitious - politicians who crave power - think that they're in control of it, but at some point, the movement that…

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“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.…

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“It’s hard to hear the music behind the words when their meanings get in the way,” she told me once.”

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The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language.

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“A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original.”

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Almost all of my stories can be understood to be elaborations on our drive to remake the world and our adjustments to the result.

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“Dad and I went on walking, our shadows touching.”

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“I can only wish that someday you’ll also be pestered by a student as persistent to learn what you do not wish to teach.”

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I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job if they…

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“Surveillance is surveillance. I can never understand why some people think it matters whether it's the government doing it to you or a company.”

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Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical…

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It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

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So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take…

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He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought.

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Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t…

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The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,…

Simone de Beauvoir

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What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

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Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

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I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing…

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Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your…

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Truth be told from compulsive liars with a history/Everything must change 2nd chances are a mystery

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