S. T. Joshi Quotes
Richard Gavin is one of the bright new stars in contemporary weird fiction. His richly textured style, deft character portrayal, and powerful horrific conceptions make every one of his tales a pleasure to read.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I like to build things. I like to do things.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.
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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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I've never been on a date.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.
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In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
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The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.
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Instinct is the most powerful thing you have, and you have to trust it.
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It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.
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Richard Gavin is one of the bright new stars in contemporary weird fiction. His richly textured style, deft character portrayal, and powerful horrific conceptions make every one of his tales a pleasure to read.
