Top 54 David Gerrold Quotes
#2. A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.
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#3. Somewhere there exists all the possible variations of all the possible people I could be. I could be any of them- but I cannot be all. I can only be one of the variations. I will be the variation of myself that pleases me the most.
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#4. The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled with sweet yellow days, music and bright smelling memories.
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#5. The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Don't worry about constructing beautiful sentences. Beauty comes from meaning, not language. Accuracy is the most effective style of all.
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#6. 'Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don't really have to get involved. It's all plastic.
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#7. 99% of all lawyers give the rest of them a bad name.
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#8. Morality - like velocity - is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them; never can one measure one's velocity or morality in terms of absolutes.
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#9. If you're passing the buck, don't ask for change.
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#10. Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.'
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#11. Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
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#13. Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.
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#14. There's two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the last commercial, and there are books that once you've read, you never look at the world the same way again.
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#15. Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed.
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#16. It's almost always dangerous to be right too soon.
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#17. Life is full of little surprises.
Time travel is full of big ones.
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#18. True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.
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#19. You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.
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#20. Somebody should have warned the Trojans. Beware of gifts bearing Greeks.
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#21. You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' which is one of my better-known books.
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#22. In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power.
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#23. The secret of the universe is this: The universe doesn't care. That part of the job is yours.
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#24. I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other things from Europe were introduced into Australia, they ran amok.
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#25. Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order
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#26. You will find it easiest to ride the avalanche in the direction it already travels.
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#27. I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer.
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#28. To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it.
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#29. The most useless job in the world is that of the critic. That is a prejudiced statement. I admit it. I'm prejudiced. I hate critics ... And now, as the saying goes (yesterday, I couldn't even spell critik), and now I are one.
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#30. Only people who haven't lived through a war advocate it so eagerly.
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#31. The jingling of a fat purse always commands the world.
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#32. Study what you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life. It'll be one great adventure.
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#33. I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects.
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#34. presumptuous - but he's got to he with someone
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#35. The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them.
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#36. When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are in relation to them.
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#37. Most people say they want justice, but they don't really want justice. They want revenge. They want to see the pain spread around equally.
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#38. When television began, it modeled itself after radio. Many early television programs were radio programs first. 'My Favorite Wife,' 'The Jack Benny Show,' 'Burns and Allen,' 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.'
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#39. When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of 'War Of The Worlds,' 'Them,' and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' Those movies were scary! They haunted my nightmares for years, so when I started writing, I wanted to write a story that was just as big and just as scary.
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#40. Fantasy isn't about escape; it's a survival mechanism. It's a way to deal with things that are so much bigger than you are. So I think fantasy is special, something to be cherished and protected because it's a very fragile thing and without it, we're so defenseless, we're paralyzed.
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#41. In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage.
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#42. Imagine yourself in the scene. See what there is to be seen. Listen to the sounds. Touch the world. Smell the air. Taste it. Use all of your senses. Then evoke those experiences for the reader. If you give the audience the flavor, they'll flesh out the moment in their own imaginations.
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#43. Just as movies, radio, and television evolved into new forms over time, the ebook will also become something more than just a way to read books. It will become its own specific and unique way of creating and sharing experience.
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#44. Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.
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#45. I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future
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#46. 'The Next Generation' was a lot of fun for a while, and then it wasn't a lot of fun. The reason it wasn't a lot of fun was that this one was going to be a guaranteed hit. The original 'Star Trek' was never a guaranteed hit.
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#47. I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.
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#48. Life has a peculiar habit
once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives.
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#49. Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79 episodes of the series; there were 55 different writers. I was only one of them.
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#50. The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.
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#51. You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails.
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#52. I think we built the right future. If it's a choice between the flying car or the Internet, tablets and smartphones, I'll take what we've got.
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#53. The first science fiction show on television was 'Tales Of Tomorrow' using scripts from the radio show 'X-1' which used stories from 'Galaxy Magazine' as its source material.
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#54. Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.
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