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🇺🇸Ursula K. Le Guin

Literature

1929–2018

"All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens."

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🇺🇸Philip K. Dick

Literature

postmodern literature

1928–1982

"But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That’s closer to it. The artistic life without the talent."

"Evidently you do not trust me. This does not predispose me to trust you."

"To replay human existence — fine, but to replay it in the way a drunk replays a corny tune, pushing coins over and over into the jukebox?"

"There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed but nothing could be done about good men who were deluded."

"You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me."

"Life is meant to be felt. Else why live? Valleys make the mountains."

"The Gardener says that mortals often pass laws they cannot enforce in order to be seen as “strong,” or “determined,” even though they know the laws will not solve the problem."

"An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic."

"I have noted, too, that when it comes to matters of security the laws are considerably relaxed."

"I wished she would go away and let us destroy the universe in peace."

"I don’t ever see any character as 100 percent good or 100 percent evil…"

"In his reliance on evidence, preferably obtained at first hand, Hutton was showing the way to the geological methods of the future."

"Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It’s just easier to handle those with emotions."

"I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get in trouble mistaking one for the other."

"Love is always a risk; but hate is a deadly peril."

"Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie."

"I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth."

"No one likes to be watched constantly by someone he can’t see."

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🇺🇸Margaret Peterson Haddix

Literature

b. 1964

"Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them."

"What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?"

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🇬🇧Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Literature

b. 1953

"Apparently this was a design flaw in the unaugmented human brain, a lagging of consciousness behind intent."

"You can’t go home again, particularly if you never had one."

"Wolfe, Gene", The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 3rd edition"

"It was not fear that kept them from misusing what they had. It was self-respect."

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🇺🇸Melinda M. Snodgrass

Science

b. 1951

"Magic is only useful against those with an affinity to magic."

"What used to be an advantage had quickly turned into a liability, proving once more that in the mountains, as in life, nothing comes easily."

"— all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims ... for what?"

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🇺🇸Mary Robinette Kowal

Literature

b. 1969

"They could not see the effort which went into the art, and would consequently grow bored with it more quickly."

"You put me through hell. On purpose. Made me suffer. And there’s no end in sight. I don’t know what the fuck you’re doing, ace, but this Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde shit ain’t cutting it with me."

"Narration: Perhaps his love for her made him less than impartial, but he also knew how deeply she'd been hurt and chided her for judging herself so much more harshly than she would have judged someone else..."

"I die with a clear conscience, I die fighting, not like a coward."

"There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds."

"Jealous?""Maybe.""No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse."

"“One of the few benefits of the fall of civilization as we know it,” he says, “is that there are private cellars with fine vintages everywhere one digs. It is not theft. It is archaeology."

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🇺🇸Christopher Paolini

Literature

b. 1983

"Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us."

"I have more information in one place than anybody in the world."

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🇵🇱Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz

Literature

b. 1964

"Once I appealed to distinguish words "gay" and "homosexual" . "Gayship" is a political homosexualism, a sort of left-wing ideology based on a bias against traditional lifestyle . Homosexualism is a sexual preference."

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