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Alastair Reynolds Quotes

As a kid, I'd buy novels with these magnificent Chris Fosse covers which showed an enormous contraption hovering over a planet, and you'd always think 'Where's that going to come in?' And it never did! It was always slightly disappointing when the contents of a book never lived up to the cover.

Alastair Reynolds

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: March 13, 1966

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Book Think You Never Kid Over

We live in a world where racism hasn't changed at all. It's that old thing of, you know, the more things change, the more things remain the same.

Change Live Racism World You Know

A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.

Day American Two Pay Number Willing

I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.

Steven Spielberg

Love Father Light Me Think Love Me

Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.

Name You Say Authority They Say

As work in neurosciences indicates, the acquisition of literacy necessitated a new circuit in our species' brain more than 6,000 years ago. That circuit evolved from a very simple mechanism for decoding basic information, like the number of goats in one's herd, to the present, highly elaborated reading brain.

Work Simple Brain Reading Present

Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Go Way Possible Starting Above Only

What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.

Louis D. Brandeis

Mother Language Speech Clothes Way

I can remember being young and being outside and watch guys go through what they go through with the police, and old ladies come outside their house and be like, 'Oh, Lord, they're hitting him,' or whatever is happening. You see it right in front of your face.

Police Face Remember You House Go

Humans and nations are imperfect, and through our collective efforts, we hope to improve our nation and bring hope and opportunity to millions who lack it.

Opportunity Hope Nation Improve Who

I do believe in self-help.

Believe Self-Help

If I was just to shut up, I wouldn't be a true artist.

Artist True Shut Up Up Just Shut

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Travel World Self Country Nobody

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