Elizabeth Moon Quotes
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Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.
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There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.
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Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that.
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But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.
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People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.
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Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that. When I first went to get my state ID card, the form asked for eye color. I tried to write in all the colors in my own eyes, but the space wasnt big enough. They told me to put 'brown'. I put 'brown', but that is not the only color in my eyes. It is just the color that people see because they do not really look atr other people's eyes.
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So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.
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I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter.
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It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.
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I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.
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What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.
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You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.
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I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.
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Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
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I revear all the gods but those that delight in cruelty. If Ra's light is kindly in your eyes than may his light shine on us all.
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Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.
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My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
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I used to not back down from a challenge.
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I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?
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There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
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I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.
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No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
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Normal' is a dryer setting.
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It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.