"The sentient beast has long been a staple……" — Paul Di Filippo
"The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale."
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35 Quotes by Paul Di Filippo
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The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
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That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would…
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What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able…
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The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?
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Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
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As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will…
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Neil Gaiman has reached a masterful stage in his writing where he deserves his own adjective, which could be extended…
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Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned…
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Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his…
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The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I…
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The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to…
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Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or…
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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . .…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these…
— Hippocrates
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He was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents…
— Albert Speer
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We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans…
— Murray Bookchin
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Medicine deals with the states of health and disease in the human body. It is a truism of philosophy that…
— Avicenna
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The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, .. but the only thing that makes what you do (before a behavior)…
— Aubrey Daniels
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We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking…
— Heidi Julavits
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We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand…
— Maggie O'Farrell
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I must start at the beginning, if I can find it. Beginnings are elusive things. Just when you think you…
— Hillary Jordan
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You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back.
— Patricia Briggs
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I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only…
— Tennessee Williams
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