Michael Bishop Quotes

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They had both changed in eight years, eroded or subtly augmented by the sweep of time's river.

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Extinction confers on the has-been the same mythological status that imagination confers on the never-was.

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Necessary is often the mother of light fingers instead of invention.

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Paleoanthropologists were congenitally media-oriented.

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You can't go home again, particularly if you never had one.

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Here he was, not quite twenty-five years old, and he was going to have to make a new life for himself. A host of options lay before him, but, tipsy with Chablis and sunshine, at the moment all he could truly feel was a powerful sense of loss and uncertainty. All the routes to his previous self—the self that had tried to survive as a loner in Fort Walton Beach—were blocked, and he did not know which new path to choose.
Ciao, he said again, and this time he was not talking to his mother.

Michael Bishop

Michael Bishop

Michael Bishop

Born: November 12, 1945

Died: November 13, 2023 (aged 78)

Bio: Michael Lawson Bishop was an American writer. Over five decades and in more than thirty books, he created what has been called a "body of work that stands among the most admired and influential in modern science fiction and fantasy literature."

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