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Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

Bruce Sterling

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Bruce Sterling
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 14
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Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.
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The past is a kind of future that has already happened.
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I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
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The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched.
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Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it.
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