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Frederik Pohl quotes: I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

Frederik Pohl quotes: Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.

Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.

Frederik Pohl quotes: What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?

What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?

Frederik Pohl quotes: She's thinking I betrayed her, and she's thinking it now! I can't live with that.

She's thinking I betrayed her, and she's thinking it now! I can't live with that.

Frederik Pohl quotes: They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever ... and the other one scared me out of my mind.

They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever ... and the other one scared me out of my mind.

Frederik Pohl quotes: I let myself flop - so gently, so slowly - into my one real chair and tried to make myself understand that I was on the doorstep of the universe.

I let myself flop - so gently, so slowly - into my one real chair and tried to make myself understand that I was on the doorstep of the universe.

Frederik Pohl quotes: You asked me, 'Do you call this living? And I answer: Yes, it is exactly what I call living. And in my best hypothetical sense, I envy it very much.

You asked me, 'Do you call this living? And I answer: Yes, it is exactly what I call living. And in my best hypothetical sense, I envy it very much.

Frederik Pohl quotes: You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.

You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.

Frederik Pohl quotes: A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

Frederik Pohl quotes: I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

Frederik Pohl quotes: The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

Frederik Pohl quotes: For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.

For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.

Frederik Pohl quotes: That was an all-purpose IBM 3070. It took up half a room and still did not have enough capacity to do all the jobs demanded of it.

That was an all-purpose IBM 3070. It took up half a room and still did not have enough capacity to do all the jobs demanded of it.

Frederik Pohl quotes: The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.

The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.

Frederik Pohl quotes: The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

Frederik Pohl quotes: You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.

You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.

Frederik Pohl quotes: I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

Frederik Pohl quotes: My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.

My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.

Frederik Pohl quotes: People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

Frederik Pohl quotes: It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

Frederik Pohl quotes: On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.

On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.

Frederik Pohl quotes: That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.

That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.

Frederik Pohl quotes: Only you have to keep practicing and remembering.

Only you have to keep practicing and remembering.

Frederik Pohl quotes: And so in that moment he completes the process of growing up. And begins the process of dying. Which is much the same thing.

And so in that moment he completes the process of growing up. And begins the process of dying. Which is much the same thing.

Frederik Pohl quotes: A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

Frederik Pohl quotes: In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

Frederik Pohl quotes: But what was even worse was not understanding the thought behind the words.

But what was even worse was not understanding the thought behind the words.

Frederik Pohl quotes: Science fiction is the very literature of change.

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

Frederik Pohl quotes: The bump of ego on his skull had swollen large, so he saw the whole world in terms of what it could give him.

The bump of ego on his skull had swollen large, so he saw the whole world in terms of what it could give him.