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Kurt Vonnegut Jr
: I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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Van Morrison :
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It's no good recording stuff and putting it in a drawer. What's the point in that? You've got to get it out there.
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Susan Sontag :
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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
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Megan Mullally :
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So I light the fire with the lighter and then I'm like, 'Now, how am I going to light the candles?' And I'm racing through the house, tearing open drawers and throwing things out of closets, looking for matches ... and I had just lit the fire with the thing!!! And then I was like, 'How did I light the fire?' So then l took the thing and lit the candles.
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Ursula K Le Guin :
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Doris Lessing :
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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
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Philip K Dick :
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Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
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Isaac Asimov :
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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J G Ballard :
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
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Do I worship modern medicine? Is science my religion? Not at all; there is no aspect of modern medicine or science that I would exempt from the most rigorous scrutiny, and I can readily identify a host of serious problems that still need to be fixed. That's easy to do, of course, because the worlds of medicine and science are already engaged in the most obsessive, intensive, and humble self-assessments yet known to human institutions, and they regularly make public the results of their self-examinations. Moreover, this open-ended rational criticism, imperfect as it is, is the secret of the astounding success of these human enterprises. There are measurable improvements every day.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.
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The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.
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Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.
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I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
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