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My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't think the way that other people do. Gregory Benford
fictional remains
More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective. Mark Billingham
fiction easy tales
How easy it is to tell tales! Denis Diderot
fiction hub
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things. Elizabeth Bowen
fiction stories knows
[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.
fiction autobiography bounds
... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
fiction hard tendency weakness
I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time. Sarah Dessen
fiction humor low pitch relief short throws trying
Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it. Elizabeth McCracken
fiction fondness hard historical mind science wondrous
I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves. Sue Monk Kidd
realizing should right-now
The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now? Alan Watts
realizing too-real heard
I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.
realizing behavior accepting-yourself
Accept yourself. But realize your behaviors can be bad. David D. Burns
realizing cant-change havens
You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own. Byron Katie
realizing young knows
The things that you know intellectually when you're young become internalized as you get older. You realize all those clichés. Cary Elwes
realizing strikes
Do you realize how good you have to be to strike out 2000 times? Casey Stengel
realizing persons knows
But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through. Beatrice Wood
realizing
Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it. Edith Stein
realizing enormous reader
We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors. C. S. Lewis
socially
You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated. Eduardo Paes
social-unrest roots today
It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution. Le Corbusier
social
Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact. Noam Chomsky
socialism economy rational
Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy. Ludwig von Mises
socialist officials
Socialist society is a society of officials.
socialism midway capitalism-and-socialism
The system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.
social function goods
Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.
social subjected
We are doing it for their own protection. They are subjected to not just violence, but also social diseases. Gary Knowles
social-media
That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual. David Cross