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Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered; and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

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Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#fictions #life #lived #memories #life

Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing--until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#history #life #literature #time #life

When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written. ↗

— William Gibson

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The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near. ↗

— Philip José Farmer

#genre #kurt-vonnegut #parable #ray-bradbury #science-fiction

I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me ↗

— Carlyle Labuschagne

#fantasy #fiction #hot-release #new-release #science-fiction

there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done ↗

— Evan Meekins

#emotion #fantasy #fantasy-fiction #feelings #fiction

We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

#science-fiction #life

A whore is a whore is a whore. Except when he's something else completely. From the writings of King Helios Dayspring, High Priest of the Temple of the Sun ↗

— Belinda McBride

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