Top 33 Norman Spinrad Quotes
#1. You can't make a revolutionary omelet without breaking heads.
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#3. The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.
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#4. As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.
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#5. In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.
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#6. There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.
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#7. The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.
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#8. Kiss me, and you'll live forever. You'll be a frog, but you'll live forever.
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#9. When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.
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#10. I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.
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#11. At least as coherent as the Gettysburg Address backwards in Albanian, anyway.
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#12. I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
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#13. Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.
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#15. Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.
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#17. [P]ower, terrible, unprecedented power, and with it came the unavoidable choice that had faced every power-junkie since time began: to have the sheer gall to fake being something greater than a man, or cop-out on the millions who had poured a part of themselves into your image and be something less.
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#18. Stay a dreamer, and you'll never have your dream; get down in the nitty-gritty, and when you get your dream you see what horseshit it was in the first place.
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#19. Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order
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#20. The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.
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#22. It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.
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#23. I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.
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#24. It ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.
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#25. Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality
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#26. I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.
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#28. We shall give up the things of childhood --
gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.
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#29. If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.
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#31. America was becoming the world's best-defended Third World country, and the best and the brightest were collaborating in the process.
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#32. English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.
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