Quote by Joan Didion
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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Self-Respect
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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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Business
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one – Joan Didion

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

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Science Fiction

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

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Science Fiction

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

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Science Fiction

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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Science Fiction

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. – Adam Smith

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There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicoles and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating whats been happening and at some point you have to make a choice. – Boris Kodjoe

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I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home – Ive been there 14 years now. – Katherine Jenkins

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My mom introduced me to science-fiction. – Logan Marshall-Green

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