#sf

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#black #civilization #engaged #immigrant #in the past

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#fellows #having #misfortunes #thought #too

What can I tell you? I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S. ↗

— Holly Johnson

#commercially #continue #creative #i #only

"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#appetite #drinking #eating #false #false modesty

Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed. ↗

— Aaron Sanchez

#crappy #food #latin #like #marginal

I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#areas #considerable #extent #falling #fashion

You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#collaborator #got #satisfied #understand #you

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful. ↗