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“How awful!” said Bill. “Why do you do it?” “Oh, because it gives one such a noble feeling to suffer for one’s silhouette.
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W.G. Sebald
“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

A.E. van Vogt
“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”
Van Vogt a.E

Murray Leinster
“the whole purpose of civilization is to take the surprises out of life, so one can be bored to death”
Murray Leinster, The Pirates of Ersatz

Michael Moorcock
“It was a world ruled these days by the gun, the guitar, and the needle, sexier than sex, where the good right hand had become the male's primary sexual organ...”
Michael Moorcock

John Wyndham
“Failure.
That is a word so little to our taste that many think it a virtue to claim that they never admit it. But blind stupidity is not one of the virtues; it is a weakness...”
John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

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