David G. Hartwell Quotes
Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.

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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.
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I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.
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As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.
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In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.
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Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
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I don't do my own Instagram.
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Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice; being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.
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I found people were telling stories to themselves without knowing it. It seemed to me that people were living a sort of small sermon that they believed in, but at the same time it was a fairy tale. Selfish desires, along with one or two highly suspect elevated thoughts. They secretly regard themselves as works of art, valuable in themselves.
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Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.
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Yesterday, we were a weak and small country trampled upon by big powers. Today, our geopolitical location remains the same, but we are transformed into a proud political and military power and an independent people that no one can dare provoke. The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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People need to heed the message of Chris Christie and get the job done. We don't want the last century, America's century, to be a historical accident.
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I don't know how you can go through a four-hour match with Rafa and he never gets a time violation.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.
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Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.