David Gerrold Quotes

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• I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.

  David Gerrold

  Love, Dream, Memories

  David Gerrold (2014). “A Covenant of Justice: Trackers, Book Two”, p.98, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Don’t worry about constructing beautiful sentences. Beauty comes from meaning, not language. Accuracy is the most effective style of all.

  David Gerrold

  Beautiful, Communication, Writing

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• Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

  David Gerrold

  Life, Grateful, Order

  David Gerrold, Mike Resnick (2011). “Alternative Gerrolds: An Assortment of Ficitious Lives”, p.241, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.

  David Gerrold

  Acceptance, Loving Life, Interesting

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• The jingling of a fat purse always commands the world.

  David Gerrold

  Money, World, Purses

  David Gerrold (1993). “Under the Eye of God”, Spectra

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• The secret of the universe is this: The universe doesn't care. That part of the job is yours.

  David Gerrold

  Success, Jobs, Secret

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• Study what you love, and youll never have to work a day in your life. Itll be one great adventure.

  David Gerrold

  Adventure, Study, Great Adventure

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• To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it.

  David Gerrold

  Crazy, Moving, Home

  David Gerrold (2002). “The Martian Child: A Novel About A Single Father Adopting A Son”, p.113, Forge Books

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• The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them.

  David Gerrold

  Race, Modern Life, Problem

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• Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big - and takes on that damned capital C - they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.)
  Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.

  David Gerrold

  Sacrifice, Past, Self

  "The Man Who Folded Himself". Book by David Gerrold, 1973.

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• If you're passing the buck, don't ask for change.

  David Gerrold

  Bucks, Passing, Asks

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• True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.

  David Gerrold

  Assessment, Expression, Intelligence

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• In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.

  David Gerrold

  Moon, Technology, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• Who are we? And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories are - at their very best - evocations of that question. When we look up at the night sky and wonder, "Is there anyone else out there?" we're also asking who we are we in relation to them.

  David Gerrold

  Night, Sky, Fiction Stories

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

  David Gerrold

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.

  David Gerrold

  Success, Contentment, Aging

  "A Season for Slaughter (The War Against the Chtorr, Book 4)". Book by David Gerrold, 1992.

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• Most people say they want justice, but they don't really want justice. They want revenge. They want to see the pain spread around equally.

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  Pain, Revenge, People

  David Gerrold (2014). “Under the Eye of God: Trackers, Book One”, p.98, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• I have a very simple philosophy of life: Kindness. Ferocious, unrelenting, ruthless, committed, passionate, kindness. Life is sacred everywhere. We all have better things to do than beat each other up. Arguing for the exception is to invest it with energy, it's to negotiate the loophole. The commitment to kindness must be total.

  David Gerrold

  Kindness, Philosophy, Commitment

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• Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

  David Gerrold

  Mean Girls, Law, Understanding

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• Life is full of little surprises. Time travel is full of big ones.

  David Gerrold

  Littles, Life Is, Surprise

  David Gerrold (2013). “The Man Who Folded Himself”, p.50, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• The computer has evolved into a partner, a tool, and an environment--not just in science fiction, but in the public consciousness as well. Computers are no longer malevolent iron brains that manufacture tyrannical and oppressive answers; they are not a way to think, they are a place from which to think. The computer is an environment in which answers can be sought, created, manipulated and developed.

  David Gerrold

  Thinking, Iron, Brain

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• Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79 episodes of the series; there were 55 different writers. I was only one of them.

  David Gerrold

  Stars, Different, Want

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• Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.

  David Gerrold

  Yesterday, Different, Tomorrow

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You will find it easiest to ride the avalanche in the direction it already travels.

  David Gerrold

  Avalanches

  David Gerrold (2014). “Under the Eye of God: Trackers, Book One”, p.90, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• It's almost always dangerous to be right too soon.

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  Dangerous

  David Gerrold (2002). “The Martian Child: A Novel About A Single Father Adopting A Son”, p.106, Macmillan

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