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And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile -- except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.
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convention
self-referential
fame
science-fiction
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Isaac Asimov |
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He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood on a platform over a sea of faces; the air was heavy, compact, saturated with a single solvent-admiration; there was no room for anything else. He was great; great as the number of people who told him so. He was right; right as the number of people who believed it. He looked at the faces, at the eyes, he saw himself born in them, he saw himself granted the gift of life. That was Peter Keating, that, the reflection in those staring pupils, and his body was only it's reflection.
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convention
society
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Ayn Rand |
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I never learned to say shit before a lady. I don't believe in progress in quite the way you seem to. You believe in it more than Grandmother did. As for those purely cultural patterns of convention you think I ought to escape from, they happen to add up to civilization, and I'd rather be civilized than tribal or uncouth.
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progress
tribalism
grandparents
convention
culture
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Wallace Stegner |
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Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.
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convention
art
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Stewart Brand |
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The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity.
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time
change
infirmity
constraints
convention
authority
power
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Cormac McCarthy |