Quotes by Greg Bear - Page 1

Sometimes the problem outshines the pain.
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Pain
Problem
Sometimes
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Having one's eyes opened doesn't make one grateful.
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Eye
Grateful
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Man is the poet who kills, Woman the angel who eats.
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Men
Angel
Poet
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Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.
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Debate
Fiction
Science Fiction
Stimulates
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Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.
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Apocalypse
Democratic
Process
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All things will be ambiguous, for this is the curse of wisdom.
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All Things
Ambiguous
Curse
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Working in Isaac's universe was more of a treat than a challenge.
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Isaac
Treat
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I sometimes think we deserve to die, we're all so goddamned stupid.
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Sometimes
Stupid
Thinking
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There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds.
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War
Mind
Winning
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To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.
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Enemy
Fighting
Ignorance
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Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten.It was in the blood, the flesh,And now it is forever.
Greg Bear / Author
Blood
Flesh
Forever
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Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
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Accepting
Grief
Inefficiency
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You deserve whoever governs you ... Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.
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Action
Leader
Responsible
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Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.
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Aggressive
Destruction
Self
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All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.
Greg Bear / Author
America
Nice
Sheep
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When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.
Greg Bear / Author
Doe
Focus
Reality
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Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed designed to slay everything it touches.
Greg Bear / Author
Children
Our World
Stars
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Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.
Greg Bear / Author
Kings
Strong
Warrior
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Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.
Greg Bear / Author
Morality
Political
Spiritual
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Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don't understand everything.
Greg Bear / Author
Fusion
Hell
Sometimes
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It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.
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Extraordinary
Fiction
People
Science Fiction
Stuff
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It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West!
Greg Bear / Author
Contact
Egalitarianism
People
Thinking
West
Wide
Wild West
Touch
Great Thinking People
Open
Wild
Egalitarian
Writers
Great Place
Readers
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We're told another large-scale terrorist attack is inevitable by those people who have committed so many resources to preventing it. They likely know what they're talking about.
Greg Bear / Author
Committed
Inevitable
Large Scale
Preventing
Resources
Terrorist
People Know Who
Attack
People Know Talking
Likely
Terrorist Attack
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The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.
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Organization
Philosophy
Political
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Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.
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Sad
Buried
Childhood Memories
Covered
Mars
Memories
Mythic
Nerds
Triumphs
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For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.
Greg Bear / Author
Labs
Military
Nuclear
Nuclear Terrorism
Terrorism
Troublesome
Years
Amateur
Costly
Deadly
Ultimately
Warn
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There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive-and getting away with it-is far nobler. Lance boils if you wish, but pricking pretensions is often cleaner and always more fun.
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Atoms
Fun
Wish
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But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs.
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Fighting
Motivation
Thug
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Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would not be true elsewhere, or that it would be negated by the progress of technology in an advanced civilization.
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Technology
Believe
Civilization
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Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing.
Greg Bear / Author
Vacation
Amazing
Danger
Despite
Discomfort
Earth
Imaginary
Love Coming Back
Mars
Planets
Sight
Solar System
Yeah
Apart
Coming
Short
Sights
Solar
System
Vacations
Visit
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We may exist in all universes, but 'hear' only one because of our limitations, the valve of our desires, our practical, physical needs. All is vibration, with nothing vibrating across no distance whatsoever. All is music. A universe, a world, is just one long difficult song. The difference between worlds is the difference between songs.
Greg Bear / Author
Differences
Distance
Song
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Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.
Greg Bear / Author
Friendship
Happy
Brilliant
Charming
Influential
Inspire
Long
Stories
Teach
Terrific
Tolerate
Willing
Life Long My Life
Accessible
Writer
Also
Could
Model
Grand
My Life
Rarely
Reasons
Supplied
Throughout
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To translate kinesics or paralinguistic messages into words is likely to introduce gross falsification due not merely to the human propensity for trying to falsify statements about "feelings" and relationship and to the distortions which arise whenever the products of one system of coding are dissected onto the premises of another, but especially to the fact that all such translation must give to the more or less unconscious and involuntary message the appearance of conscious intent.
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Feelings
Giving
Trying
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