Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's. - E. M. Forster

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I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we live in, that we often live in quite uncomfortably.

E. M. Forster

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

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Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer

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History develops, art stands still.

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Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

Love, Love Is, Moments, Seldom, Thinking, World

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

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Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had to know. By taking my hand, she showed me what these things were. That within the real world, a place like this existed. In the space of those ten seconds I became I tiny bird, fluttering in the air, the wind rushing by. From high in the sky I could see a scene far away. It was so far off I couldn't make it out clearly, yet something was there, and I knew that someday I would travel to that place.

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Anton Chekhov

In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments.

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William Gibson

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Robert Aris Willmott

The fame of a battlefield grows with its years; Napoleon storming the Bridge of Lodi, and Wellington surveying the towers of Salamanca, affect us with fainter emotions than Brutus reading in his tent at Philippi, or Richard bearing down with the English chivalry upon the white armies of Saladin.

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Del LaGrace Volcano

As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body. I name myself. A gender abolitionist. A part time gender terrorist. An intentional mutation and intersex by design, (as opposed to diagnosis), in order to distinguish my journey from the thousands of intersex individuals who have had their 'ambiguous' bodies mutilated and disfigured in a misguided attempt at 'normalization'. I believe in crossing the line as many times as it takes to build a bridge we can all walk across.

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