The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERWhere lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal.
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