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“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”
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“I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.”
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“If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.”
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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“He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.”
Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.49, Macmillan
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“Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.”
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“Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.”
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“I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology”
Source : Zbigniew Herbert, John Carpenter, Bogdana Carpenter (1985). “Raport z oblezonego miasta i inne wiersze”, Ecco Pr
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“I'm not a believer in the future. The most interesting things are always behind us. I look at everything as archaeology.”
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“History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.”
Source : "Organized hunts for Civil War relics raise dust between participants, historians" by Brigid Schulte, www.sfgate.com. April 30, 2006. 
