Michael Swanwick Quotes

#1. Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.

Gardner Dozois

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

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

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

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

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

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#10. The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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

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#13. I will pay you in trouble and terror.

Tanith Lee

#14. When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.

E.W. Howe

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

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#16. 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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#17. 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.

Michael Swanwick

#18. I'm dying to do a tiny indie and play something totally naturalistic without any sort of constraints on me. Something where I can shock everyone.

Lily James

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

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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. The Spider Hero lived his life by this maxim: He who possesses great power is burdened also with great responsibility. -

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#24. When our Heart is on the Right Place there will be no Secrets.

Jan Jansen

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

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

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#27. The bureaucrat fell from the sky.

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

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#29. I don't know how it would play out it the long run, if I were go to series with the story, I don't know. I just miss Peter so much on a personal level, that's about what I can say. He's my buddy and I wish he were around.

Andreas Katsulas

#30. We youths say "like" all the time because we mistrust reality.

James S. Kunen