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Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Arthur C. Clarke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: December 16, 1917 - March 19, 2008

Topics

Technology Society Will Out Lived

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

Mind Me Smoke Person Three Drink

I went to theater school at Northwestern, and I was quite conservative. Reagan at the time seemed quite revolutionary, or at least a rock star: He was radical and kind of punk rock.

John Cameron Mitchell

Time School Rock Star Kind Rock

I've learned a lot about getting film sensibilities on digital.

Digital Film Learned About Getting

As we say from time to time, it's hard to win in the National Football League.

Time Football Win Say Hard National

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

Design You Be Nice Nice Real Open

In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man.

Roberto Cavalli

Man Fashion Planet Only Straight

In our national mythology, we seem to include only one-way migrations to the great capitol cities. The journey from the small Wisconsin town or Minnesota city to Chicago or New York or Los Angeles. Certainly for some people, that journey is a round trip.

Journey Great New York People City

I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

Great Poetry American Fiction Frost

After college, I went on a real big classics kick. Read everything by Faulkner, Hemingway, Woolf, Proust, Dostoevsky. And that classics train dropped me off at 'Dracula.' Halfway through it, I understood I'd never be going back, never 'leaving' the genre again. Since then, I've been on a fairly strict horror diet.

College Me Diet Back Train Leaving

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

Life Good Why Pirate Pretty After

It's always 'busy' with four children; it's chaos.

Children Chaos Busy Always Four

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry Sword Lightning Would Contain

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