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The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. – Joan Didion

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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. – Joan Didion

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Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. – Joan Didion

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I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine – Philip K. Dick

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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. – Eric Hoffer

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Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive. – Ursula K. LeGuin

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In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadnt developed space travel were mere prehistory — horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene — and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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