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Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

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David Brin
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 6
Astronomer
Astrophysicist
Novelist
Physicist
Science Fiction Writer
Scientist
Screenwriter
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Glendale
California
USA
Glen David Brin
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Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.
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Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?
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Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases
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If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.
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Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
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