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May 23, 2013

Quote – Writers Expose Their Innermost Emotions To The World

“To wear your heart upon your sleeve is to expose your innermost emotions to the world. Writers do that. They expose their most private feelings to total strangers. Not once, not by accident, but deliberately and, to all extents and purposes, permanently.” -Julia Czerneda – Introduction to Douglas Smith’s Chimerascope

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May 19, 2013

Quote – Horror in Fact that it is Reality, not Myth

“This is no myth – no minotaur or Pan. This is a reality. And therein lies its horror, its fascination.” -Terence M. Green – The Woman Who Is The Midnight Wind (In Tesseracts)

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May 17, 2013

Quote – Creations Take On Lives Of Their Own

“When we create, if we do it well, the things we create take on lives of their own and in so doing, cease to be our creations.” -Kevin Cockle– The Bridge Builder (Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales

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May 15, 2013

Quote- Humans Programmed For Dangerous Overload

“The pro-survival pleasure stimuli are wired so that a dangerous overload produces the maximum pleasure. On a purely biological level man is programmed to strive hugely for more than he needs, more than he can profitably use.” – Spider Robinson – God is an Iron (Tesseracts)

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May 10, 2013

Quote – Nothing but Defiance Against Reality

“All his actions were nothing more than the petty rebellions of a schoolboy, gestures of defiance to the brutal, relentless authority of reality.” -Nancy Baker – A Terrible Beauty (Penguin Books, 1996)

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May 8, 2013

Quote – Without Stories, People Lose Touch with Themselves

“It’s all machines now. It’s a – what do they call it? – high tech world. Fascinating to be sure, but… it estranges many people, cheapens the human experience. There’s no more room for the stories that matter, and that’s wrong, for stories are a part of the language of dream – they grow not from one writer, but from...

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May 3, 2013

Quote – People Who Make Other People Feel Good

“There were people who just made other people feel good. Just being around them, made you feel better, creative, uplifted, happy…. She tried to be, but she was subject to the same bad moods as anybody else, the same impatience with stupidity and ignorance which, parenthetically speaking, were to her mind the prime causes of all the world’s ills.” -Charles...

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April 28, 2013

Quote – Humans Taking Things For Granted

“Taking things for granted is a core component of the human experience.” -Corey Redekop – Husk (ECW press, 2012)

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April 25, 2013

Quote – People Are Part of the Problem, People Need to be Part of the Solution

“The system was people, and I was part of it, part of its problems, and I was going to be part of the solution from now on.” -Cory Doctorow – Homeland (Tor, 2013)

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April 18, 2013

Quote – Need People Not To Say It’s Someone Else’s Problem

“They need people to do the job… To stand apart from the mentality that says, ‘It’s someone else’s problem,’ and to do the thing that needs doing.” -James Alan Gardner – Expendable (Avon, 1997)

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