"SF is an opportunity to have an intense……" — M. John Harrison
"SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun. After that, for me, it's an opportunity to explore that kind of imaginative artifact from inside, and use a little camped-up contemporary science as a way of generating new metaphors around my typical obsessions."
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M. John Harrison
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14 Quotes by M. John Harrison
M. John Harrison has 14 quotes on this site.
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After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you…
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Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then…
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Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the…
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Perception of a state is not the state.
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Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised…
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At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap,…
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I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for…
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Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.
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Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.
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Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have…
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Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go…
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What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why…
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that…
— Alec Baldwin
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When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.
— Graydon Carter
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I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to…
— Eric Clapton
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Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.
— Loni Anderson
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Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on…
— Maya Angelou
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Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.
— Harry J. Anslinger
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Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.
— Marc Anthony
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I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar.…
— Warren Buffett
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All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence.…
— Richard G. Scott
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Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless.…
— James E. Faust
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