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Ross Macdonald
“his manner had the heavy ease of a politician, poised between bullying and flattery.”
Ross Macdonald, The Chill

Ross Macdonald
“It’s interesting to come back to your childhood home. And creepy, too, like becoming very young and very old, both at the same time. The spirit that haunts the house.’ That”
Ross Macdonald, The Underground Man

Ursula K. Le Guin
“The purpose of a thought-experiment, as the term was used by Schrödinger and other physicists, is not to predict the future - indeed Schrödinger most famous thought experiment goes to show that the "future," on the quantum level, cannot be predicted - but to describe reality, the present world.
Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.
Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge), by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore mor honored in their day than prophets), and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying. Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.
Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge), by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore mor honored in their day than prophets), and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

Ross Macdonald
“I could smell fog even at this level now. It was rolling down from the mountains, flooding out the moon, as well as rising from the sea. The”
Ross Macdonald, The Chill

Ross Macdonald
“The tea tasted like a clear dark dripping from the past. My grandmother came back with it, in crisp black funeral silks,”
Ross Macdonald, The Way Some People Die

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