John Thomas Sladek Quotes

• The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.

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  Futuro, Ciencia, Pasado

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• An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.

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  Art, Artist, Life Is

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• Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.

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  Writing, Imagination, Principles

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• Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

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  Reading, Writing, Influence

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• We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

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  Kids, Phones, Library

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• The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

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  Alive, Able, Lists

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• Verás, no tengo formación periodística, así que no tenía práctica en la investigación ni en escribir no ficción, ni en manejar la verdad de forma periodística. Los periodistas saben cuándo parar y escribir algo, pero yo seguía buscando respuestas.

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  Writing, Fiction, Research

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• People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

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  People, Inventor, Great Inventors

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• Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

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  Stories, Novel, Short Story

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• In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

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  Nuts, Novel, Conventional

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• Tengo una especie de explicación estándar del porqué, que dice así: La ciencia ficción es una forma de dar sentido a un mundo sin sentido.

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  Science, Fiction, World

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• This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.

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  Hate, Real, Reading

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• Hace tiempo descubrí que tengo que tener cuidado, mientras trabajo en una novela, con lo que leo.

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  Found, Be Careful, Novel

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• I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

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  Niños, Escritura, Pensamiento

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• I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.

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  Terminado

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• Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'.

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  Simple, Car, Understanding

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• I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

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  Book, Thinking, Two

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• R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought. "No. It is inevitable that all humans must be injured, contract illnesses and ultimately die. The future can only be averted for humans who are already dead. Ergo..." It took a dozen cops to subdue R-4, after his blood orgy in a department store (83 dead, none injured).

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  Blood, Law, Dozen

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• SF tiene al menos la ventaja de no depender de ideas preconcebidas.

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  Advantage, Preconceptions

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