Alastair Reynolds Quotes
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.
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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
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It's a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided - that you can love your child and want to do everything for it, and at the same time want to put it away from you and reclaim something of yourself.
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Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.
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Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress for meaningful immigration reform.
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There's nothing about my life that I would have changed.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
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There are these girls who live in Maryland: they're the Patrick Super Fan Club Association of America. They've sent me videotapes of themselves just eating and talking about Hanson, and a loaf of bread that was really moldy by the time it got here.
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Not a lot of the country format I enjoy listening to.
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Boy, it is not fun suffering in this body of weak flesh, but Jesus is straightening out all my crooked places.
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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
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I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.
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I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.
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If one undertakes retrospection of the day's events, one must do it regularly at the appointed hour, not fitfully, not doing it today, neglecting to do it tomorrow and the day after and then taking it up again on the fourth day. Such irregular practice is not conducive to the confirmation of the habit of retrospection.
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The bearer of this letter is an old friend of mine not quite the right side of the blanket as they say in fact he is the son of a first rate butcher but his mother was a decent family called Hyssopps of the Glen so you see he is not so bad and is desireus of being the correct article.
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While the forces of repression need to win every time, the progressive elements need only triumph once.
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My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival.
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Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you...
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I'm a grown-up now, and I value the training I had.
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It doesn't matter what we call it, it's still Robbie and I together playing 'Light My Fire' and 'Love Me Two Times.' John should come and play and let us celebrate and keep this music alive. Look, what do I say to the cynics? I would like to play with Jim Morrison again. But you know what? I can't call him. I'm sorry. He's dead. He's busy. He's in eternity.
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Is this a personal grudge or are you just psychotic?
