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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It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.
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We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.
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Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.
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English people have seen me get through scandals.
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As the popularity of science-fiction increases, so inevitably does the volume of clownish imprecation against it.
