The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking … - Connie Willis

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Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or relationships. I'm always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.

Connie Willis

The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.

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I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

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Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

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And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L. A. to Dickens's London.

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