Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.
– Vernor Vinge
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- He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind – but most everybody else agreed it made you daft. – Vernor Vinge
- Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change. – Vernor Vinge
- Sometimes the biggest disasters aren’t noticed at all – no one’s around to write horror stories. – Vernor Vinge
- Funny how Underhill could get along with almost anyone, tuning down his manias to whatever the traffic would bear. – Vernor Vinge
- The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I’ll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you? – Vernor Vinge
- Technical people don’t make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart. – Vernor Vinge
- I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt. – Vernor Vinge
- History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction. – AE Samaan
- You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history – Iain Banks
- When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- The degradation of most civilizations, contain a common thread. The ‘synagogue of Satan’ is behind all weaponized ignorance and hate. – Paul Boggs
- Whatever name civilizations give to the arrangement where a man lives with a woman, it is always better to call it a marriage. – Girdhar Joshi
- He’d watched the world change around him, civilizations rise and fall, and although he could have anything, anyone, he wanted her. – Lisa Kessler
- All civilizations have needed a stable basis of short term value. – Jay Weiser
- Of all the world’s civilizations, America was the one that most needed losers. – Stphane Audeguy
- America’s civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing. – Walter A McDougall
- America’s mission is to join the most ancient civilizations with the most modern. John Augustus Roeblin – HW Brands
- Nature is relic of pre-human civilizations. – Toba Beta
- The map showed human places I’d never heard of – places that had once been great civilizations, until humans forgot the world wasn’t theirs to claim. – Anne Bishop
- Black holes are the last vestige of civilizations obsessed with tinkering. – Kane Freeman
- My history is my step to future , whatever the history was full of garbage, but I can get over it and get to the TOP with my History – Ahmed Farrag
- Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand. – Stebby Julionatan
- History will only remember those that remembered it and the best way to make history is to read history – ETC Wanyanwu
- You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is…Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. – Anthony Doerr
- [S]omehow, without his being aware of it, time had coated his awe with a rind of disillusionment, and the wine of wonder had turned to vinegar. – Joan D Vinge
- How time slips past, masked in the rhythm of the days! – Joan D Vinge
- Don’t worry. You’re safe now. You’ve got nothing left to steal. – Joan D Vinge
- According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life. – Friedrich Engels
- Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience. – Joyce Rachelle
- Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place. – Justin Alcala
- Fiction described reality better than non-fiction. – Tommy Wallach
- General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. – Marvin Minsky
- I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows. – EM Forster
- Memory is like fiction: or else it’s fiction that’s like memory. – Haruki Murakami
- All story fiction is both truth that happens and never happens. Fiction is always about humanity, even if no subject is humanitarian or even human. – Richard Bunning
- Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t. – Neil Gaiman
- I’d always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice. – Robin McKinley
- The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable. – Mark Twain
- I don’t want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges. – Brian A McBride
- I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it’s the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction. – Matthew S Williams