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September 19, 2012

Quote – Travel to Moon in Our Minds

“We used to travel to the moon in our minds…  Then, for a brief period of time, we were able to cart our bodies along. Now we’re back to the old methods.” – Ursula Pflug – Airport Shoes (Strange Horizons http://www.strangehorizons.com/2007/20071126/airportshoes-f.shtml)

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September 16, 2012

Quote – Impossible and Reality

“Lately, impossible was making reality its bitch.” -Chadwick Ginther –Thunder Road (RavenStone, forthcoming 2012).

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September 12, 2012

Quote – Rage Buries the Sunlight

“Oh, how the dark rage buries the blinding sunlight.” -Nancy Kilpatrick – Berserker (in Vampyric Variations)

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September 7, 2012

Quote – Discovery By What Is Not Answered

“It’s surprising what you can discover by what people don’t say, the questions they won’t answer.” -Nancy Baker –  A Terrible Beauty (Penguin Books, 1996)

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September 3, 2012

Quote – Too Young To Have A Nemesis

“I’m too young to have a nemesis” -Paul Marlowe – Knights of the Sea (Sybertooth, Inc., 2010)

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September 1, 2012

Quote – the Lonely Place to Ask ‘Why’ and Discover Ourselves

“When we break up with a lover, watch the death of a loved one, or find ourselves suddenly without a job to pay the mortgage, we seek that lonely place to try to gather our thoughts. It is in such places, where our fears reign paramount; where we speak and pray aloud; where we ask ‘why’ and seek answers, that...

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August 31, 2012

Quote- Curiosity and Change

“Curiosity’s primal. Our senses scan our surroundings, alerting us most urgently about sudden change. Useful, that. Change can mean opportunity. It can mean danger. Finding lunch or being lunch. We’re hard-wired to notice the unexpected, then take action.” –Julie Czerneda – Foreward (Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales)

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August 29, 2012

Quote – Lost Amongst Similar Objects

“If cabdrivers are found to be lacking in curiosity, it can no doubt be attributed to that faculty having been lost amid the innumerable other curiosities cabmen find themselves surrounded by every week. In fact, as a general rule, on can say that things are most easily lost amongst similar objects, which is why seamstresses avoid the society of haymakers.”...

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August 29, 2012

Quote – Opportunity to Learn From Mistakes

“It is important that everyone be given the opportunity to learn from his or her own mistakes. This… is a duty, not a privilege.” -Benjamin Freedman – On the Planet Grafool (In Tesseracts)

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August 27, 2012

Quote – Canadian is Hard to Explain

“Canadian is both harder and easier to explain. Nobody knows what it is even supposed to be, let far-out-alone what it actually is.” -Judith Merril- Foreword  (In Tesseracts)

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