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Thomas Pynchon
“Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.”
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

Ernest Hemingway
“There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.”
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

Thomas Pynchon
“She couldn’t stop watching his eyes. They were bright black, surrounded by an incredible network of lines, like a laboratory maze for studying intelligence in tears. They seemed to know what she wanted, even if she didn’t.”
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

Philip K. Dick
“Life which we can no longer distinguish; life carefully buried up to its forehead in the carcass of a dead world.”
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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

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