That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction … - Isaac Asimov

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Seth: "You're what matters" Ash: "Hold me? If you still want to, I mean. " Seth: "Every day, I want to hold you every day. Nothing will ever change that.

Isaac Asimov

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past.

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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics-Well, they can do whatever they wish.

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Seth: "You're what matters" Ash: "Hold me? If you still want to, I mean. " Seth: "Every day, I want to hold you every day. Nothing will ever change that.

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If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?

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