Top 22 Michael Swanwick Quotes

#1. Relationships between things shift and change constantly; there is not such thing as objective truth.

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#2. The bureaucrat fell from the sky.

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#3. The privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense ...

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#4. It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books.

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#5. The Spider Hero lived his life by this maxim: He who possesses great power is burdened also with great responsibility. -

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#6. My colleague and I are journalists ... Not of the muckraking variety, I hasten to assure you! Corruption is a necessary and time-honored concomitant of any functioning government, which we support wholeheartedly.

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#7. So that, logically, in the brief time allotted to us, we should be as kind to one another as is humanly possible and face the harsh facts of reality without fear or flinching.

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#8. I forget if it was the Mathematician of Alexandria who said that geometry is beauty laid bare or the Father of Relativity who made the claim for physics," Darger said. "She is, in either case, ravishing.

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#9. It almost sounds sensible when you say it," Prince First-Born Splendor said. "Even though I know better.

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#10. Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our genre exists to make possible. If you don't like Tom Purdom, you don't like science fiction. Period.

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#11. This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls.

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#12. Art should be beautiful, not ugly. It should be uplifting and redemptive. Art reassures us that life is good and that, however bad things may look at the moment, everything works out for the best in the end.

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#13. Everybody needs a servant, excellent sir, whether they know it or not.

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#14. The best thing to be in a city was anonymous. Failing that, however, notoriety would do.

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#15. Fire Orchid patted his cheek. Lucky for you, you don't need worry about love at all. Because you have a wife.

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#16. Perfection is death,' Anastasia said. 'The world is imperfect, but if it weren't, who would love it?

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#17. This book is dedicated to all good teachers everywhere, most particularly those of the William Levering School and Central High School in Philadelphia, to whom more is owed than can ever be repaid.

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#18. Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy.

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#19. Between things shift and change constantly; there is no such thing as objective truth.

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#20. I'm going to move to Theory someday. Everything works there.

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#21. The mechanism thus created periodically acts out post-modern notions of cosmology and then deconstructs itself. It has met with great admiration and no little puzzlement.

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#22. But there was only so much temptation a man could resist without losing all respect for himself.

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