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• Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fictio
  he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the "name" of a thing....
• No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
  If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time....
• The rulers of the State are the only ones who should have the privilege of lying, whether at home or abroad
  hey may be allowed to lie for the good of the State. -- Plato (428-348? B.C.), "The Republic...
• Of course it's possible to write good fiction in a world you didn't invent--mainstream writers do it now and then.
• How many science fiction writers -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  Two. One to screw in the light bulb, and one to say, "In 1876, Jules Verne had the first intimations that electrostatic power was a viable energy alternative....
• The good ended happily and the bad ended unhappily.
  That is what fiction means. --Oscar Wilde, from The Importance of Being Earne...
• A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
  -- William Faulkne...
• In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
  -- Plato (428-348 BCE) "The Republic" Book IX, 571d...
• Fact. Stranger than any science fiction.