James Nicoll Short Quotes

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After enough concussions the head injuries blur together.

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Nothin'g sa'ys q'uality fantas'y l'ike misuse'd apos'tro'phes.

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My father once discovered that one cannot "walk off" gangrene.

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Yes, I was suprised how easy it was to cut the door off my cat.

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Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars.

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I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.

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Hell, Chuck Yeager could do it in his sleep while on fire, I'm sure.

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Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.

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It takes a courageous Mormon to turn to archaeology to support their argument

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Deadly nightshade is the only plant I have ever been able to get to grow for me.

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You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth.

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My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.

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It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.

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Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

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I can't help but notice that everytime I fly somewhere, other people's planes fall out of the sky.

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Goodkind is noted for subtle allegories the same way Mt Kilimanjaro is known for floating weightlessly.

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Most of my scars are not fire-related and I no longer say "I know what I am doing" at critical moments.

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I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.

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The number of times I have been declared dead is statistically insignificant, although admittedly non-zero.

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Before it exploded one night, I went to a four grade, two room schoolhouse and we had textbooks from the 1940s.

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I think once you start eating people you should stop claiming to be a vegetarian, even if you only eat bad people.

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A lot of my stories end with "And when I regained consciousness, there was a crowd standing around looking at me."

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Aha! The Alien Planet Canada series, where the planet the characters are marooned on seems to be Manitoba. Bad bad world building.

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Engineers and certified pilots may be expensive but talented young men with a teenager's grasp of risk are surprisingly affordable.

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Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences.

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Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.

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Look, I tried the cat experiment. On the third trial, the cat was dead. On each of the subsequent 413 trials, it remained dead. Am I doing something wrong?

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I have hated every Kress I read, especially this one, but the Bear is a standard Bear and if you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you'll like.

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Manitoba… Not sure what to do about them. Restock the province with megafauna and encourage tourism, I think. How quickly can we breed back the saber-toothed cats?

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John Barnes is incredibly variable. Pete's Rule (Never buy a Barnes with sodomy in it) is a good one but unfortunately the publisher does not put that kind of stuff on the cover.

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