Edmund Crispin Quotes
As the popularity of science-fiction increases, so inevitably does the volume of clownish imprecation against it.
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As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects I'm involved with, for reasons that probably don't need a lot of explanation.
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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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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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A very good career choice would be to gravitate toward those activities and to embrace those desires that harmonize with your core intentions, which are freedom and growth - and joy. Make a 'career' of living a happy life rather than trying to find work that will produce enough income that you can do things with your money that will then make you happy. When feeling happy is of paramount importance to you - and what you do 'for a living' makes you happy - you have found the best of all combinations.
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Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.
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For a second marriage a lady has to content herself with a quiet ceremony in a chapel or at home, if she doesn't want to be married by a magistrate. Having, it is to be hoped, lost her right to white satin she wears a simple afternoon frock and hat.
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Swiftly gliding in, blushing like a girl, a tall thin stripling held out both his hands; and although I could hardly believe as I looked at his flushed feminine, and artless face that it could be the Poet, I returned his warm pressure. After the ordinary greetings and courtesies he sat down and listened. I was silent from astonishment: was it possible that this mild-mannered beardless boy could be the veritable monster of the world?–ex-communicated by the Fathers of the Church, deprived of his civil rights by the fiat of a grim Lord Chancellor, discarded by every member of his family,and denounced by the rival sages of our literature as the founder of a Satanic school? I could not believe it; it must be a hoax.
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As the popularity of science-fiction increases, so inevitably does the volume of clownish imprecation against it.
