Bruce Sterling Quotes
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today - mostly by fossil fuels - you'd have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.
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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
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I guess I've got a smart wife.
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I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.
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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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This is where dreams-dreams, do you understand-come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
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Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.
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When I joined the Mumfords I made a commitment to them so they'll always come first. But I'm a bit of a workaholic and Communion helps me get a grip on dealing with my life.
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Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view.
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Believe in no triumph which is won by the deadening of human faculty or the dwarfing of human life. Strive for truth and love, not for victory.
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The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
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I found Hollywood pretty bruising and uncreative. The executives are all in thrall to the boss, and spend their times double-guessing him or her, and trying to remember what he/she said and then applying them to the script, whether it was useful or not. They're all in fear for their jobs.
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'There's no victory-condition for being human.'
