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For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, you don't build that.

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Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.

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The distances between the stars seem brief by contrast to the distances between each of us and his fellows.

Contrast, Distance, Distances, Fellows, Loneliness, Stars

Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than as penny-whistle whimsy.

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But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast four slices at a time, it didn't think that the master, who lived alone and seemed to have few friends, would have wanted a toaster of such institutional proportions. With toast, it's quality that matters, not quantity.

Matters, Proportions, Quality, Thinking, Time, Toasters

The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. Of course a tree would have taken a different view of the matter. We all tend to see the way others are alike and how we differ, and it's probably just as well we do, since that prevents a great deal of confusion. But perhaps we should remind ourselves from time to time that ours is a very partial view, and that the world is full of a great deal more variety than we ever manage to take in.

Confusion, Forest, Leaves, Taken, Views

America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as the art form best adapted to telling the lies we like to hear and to pretend we believe.

Art, Liars, Lying, Nation, Pretend, Telling
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