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If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.
David Brin
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David Brin
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 6
Astronomer
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Science Fiction Writer
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In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.
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Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.
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Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.
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The village is coming back, like it or not.
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Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.
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What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?
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Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.
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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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Change is the very fabric of our time.
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The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
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Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.
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Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?
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The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.
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I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that a committee of 20 really hard-working, intelligent people couldn't do the same thing.
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Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.
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My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.
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Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe.
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I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings.
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It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.
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