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last updated: November 28, 2023

We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isnâ€™t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planetâ€™s random geological savagery.
-- Arthur C. Clarke

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Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.
-- H. Rider Haggard

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2015). “Allan Quatermain: Mystery & Adventure Story”, p.3, 谷月社

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The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!
-- Robert E. Howard

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It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.
-- Will Self

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“Most important to me is to play well and to win. That is what the fans want to see.”
“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einsteinâ€™s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

Source : Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company
“Although his time is not always our time, we can be sure that the lord keeps his promises.”
“If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction.”
“If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn't matter where you came from, what you did, if you were incarcerated or you are from the projects, if you are an uppity kid who came from a really wealthy family - and all of them do drugs and are into that life - it doesn't matter; come as you are, and God does his work.”
“To create something you must be something.”
“I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.”
“So, the path of the co-creator is to be awakened spiritually within, which then turns into your own deeper life purpose, which then makes you want to reach out and touch others in a way that expresses self and really evolves our communities and our world. Certainly, we can't do that unless we activate ourselves first. That's why, for me, emergence is the shift from ego to essence. That is so important.”