Edmund Crispin Quotes
As the popularity of science-fiction increases, so inevitably does the volume of clownish imprecation against it.
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'Kahaani' gave me popularity and 'Gangs of Wasseypur' stardom.
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
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I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.
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For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.
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I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.
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Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.
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[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.
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Horse racing is waning in popularity.
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A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.
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I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.
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Nature is a volume of which God is the author.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.
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My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.
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Now why the hell would I want to increase the volume of my ejaculation ? They can already hear me in the apartment next door.
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Popularity is a bubble. It's a mountain: you can go up really hard but walk down really fast.
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Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.
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The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter.
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We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.
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No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But there's a vast difference, surely, between Dickens saying Indians should be exterminated and a Dave Eggers writing eloquently about the NSA, but not being as outspoken on American military power abroad.
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Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of life, is the spiritual. In everything we do, the claim of the Absolute is unchanging.
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In the evenings, Sam performs exercises to prepare his body for love-making with Franz. He practices kissing (something he’d once hated) by smooching deer lips, antelope ears, frog anuses, and the great, whiskered muzzles of sleeping bison. He improves his petting skills by necking with juniper bushes and pine tree trunks with such passion that the bark snaps and sap runs, or with such tenderness that the whole forest goes silent and swallows nest in his hair.
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When I get to flying open and killing people in the stands, it?s not good. That?s when you know my timing is not right and you can predict I won?t get a hit. That?s when I tell myself to use the whole field. That?s when I?m at my best.
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As the popularity of science-fiction increases, so inevitably does the volume of clownish imprecation against it.
