"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love."
-Margaret Atwood
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"I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.“
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"War is what happens when language fails."
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"Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets."
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"If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't."
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"If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary."
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