M. John Harrison Quotes
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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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
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I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I started Verite on savings from three years working at Applebee's in Times Square. I was a ridiculously good waitress. I was making more money than my brother, who worked at a start-up.
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We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.
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A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
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I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.
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It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I only feel whole and well when it is this way.
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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.
