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All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.
Norman Spinrad
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Norman Spinrad
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: September 15
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Norman Richard Spinrad
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The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.
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I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.
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It’s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it’s wrong to think that this means... there is some kind of uniform world culture.
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I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.
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English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.
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I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
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There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.
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I was a precocious reader.
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You can really do more than you think you can do.
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I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.
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I write in American slang.
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