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Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.
— Alastair Reynolds
Having created these cognitively enhanced creatures, the safest option at the time appeared to be to launch them into interstellar space.
— Alastair Reynolds
I thought we were better then this.""We're human. Be thankful we've moved on from clubbing each other's brains out every five minutes. — Alastair Reynolds
None of us is a monster, Chiku. We're all just trying to make the best of our singular natures.
— Alastair Reynolds
Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.
— Alastair Campbell
Life was a very odd thing indeed, he reflected, when you really thought about it.
— Alastair Reynolds
You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.
— Alastair Reynolds
We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
— Alastair Campbell
Nonetheless, we offer our forgiveness. What is the point in being a superior civilisation if you can't do that once in a while? I
— Alastair Reynolds
Given up, Khouri? It's not in my dictionary.
— Alastair Reynolds
Adapt and survive. Make do and mend. These were good mottos for a time traveller.
— Alastair Reynolds
Jeremy, are we going to play your games?
— Alastair Campbell
But beyond a certain scale vast was simply vast.
— Alastair Reynolds
It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of contradiction.
— Alastair Bruce
A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.
— Alastair Reynolds
I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D. and eventual employment.
— Alastair Reynolds
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Tony's [Blair] convinced I'm going to find God. I do have spiritual moments, but I don't think it's God.
— Alastair Campbell
History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?
— Alastair Reynolds
I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.
— Alastair Campbell
There was a moment of absolute cosmic cold, as if a billion tiny doors had opened in every cell of his body, letting in the draught of creation.
— Alastair Reynolds
Even monsters are beautiful.
— Alastair Reynolds
Such was the nature of obsessions: no quarter given for the human cost.
— Alastair Reynolds
First rule of complex systems," I said. "You can't tell friends from enemies.
— Alastair Reynolds
I'll argue to the death against stupid legislation, but some rules exist for a reason.
— Alastair Reynolds
That,' Peregrine said, 'is civilisation. Not all who were rewarded deserved to be; not all who should have been were.
— Alastair Reynolds
Across the land, the semaphore towers stood deathly still.
— Alastair Reynolds
I live each day as it comes." "It's the only way. Pedro
— Alastair Reynolds
Where no man has gone before - who said that - William Shakespeare?""I've no idea. — Alastair Reynolds
Nothing endures, except nothing itself.
— Alastair Reynolds
It's not how far you've come that matters. It's where you've come from.
— Alastair Reynolds
The trouble with the dead, Triumvir Ilia Volyova thought, was that they had no real idea when to shut up.
— Alastair Reynolds
Everyone has their fulcrum, Chiku. You can bend anyone to any cause with the right timing.
— Alastair Reynolds
Furious activity is no substitute for analytical thought.
— Alastair Pilkington
Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.
— Alastair Reynolds
My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.
— Alastair Campbell
I think I might have a glass of champagne, if there is any in Nagpur, and just enjoy the moment.
— Alastair Cook
We have worlds to save, Doctor Aziba.""That sounds ... compelling," the physician allowed. — Alastair Reynolds
I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.
— Alastair Campbell
The cards always look different when it's your turn to play them; loaded with subtly different possibilities.
— Alastair Reynolds
Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for ever.
— Alastair Reynolds
As his former student Alastair Fowler once remarked, "Lewis seemed always on the verge of hilarity -- between a chuckle and a roar.
— Greg Cootsona
To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.
— Alastair Campbell
It's one thing to be given a big boxful of theory and quite another to make an engine out of it.
— Alastair Reynolds
Wind snapped at me, warm and fragrant. The atmosphere was thick with pollen and micro-organisms, goading my body's ancient defences.
— Alastair Reynolds
Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
— Alastair Campbell
The junk food of political journalism ... all reshuffle stories are crap.
— Alastair Campbell
It is always better to try and fail than not to try.
— Alastair Reynolds
I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.
— Alastair Reynolds
I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point.
— Alastair Reynolds
Sooner or later everything boils down to trust. You just have to make that leap of faith.
— Alastair Reynolds
The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.
— Alastair Campbell
In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
— Alastair Campbell
Martin tangled his fingers fiercely in Alastair's hair
— Jay Northcote
Nothing had ever existed between us except the possibility of something, and now even that was over.
— Alastair Reynolds
The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.
— Alastair Campbell
And the knowledge that humanity was not alone in the universe would be as relevant to most as the knowledge that protons were built of quarks.
— Alastair Reynolds
I had a happy childhood.
— Alastair Campbell
Weapons readiness?" "Nominal," Dalal
— Alastair Reynolds
Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.
— Alastair Humphreys
We should have brought a torch," he was saying. "We have been to Saturn and back and we didn't bring a torch.
— Alastair Reynolds
The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.
— Alastair Campbell
I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.
— Alastair Reynolds
I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.
— Alastair Campbell
Some promises are best broken. Trust me on this: I'm a politician.
— Alastair Reynolds
An idea so dangerous it can't be discussed. I thought we buried all that nonsense back in the Dark Ages.
— Alastair Reynolds
I'm always serious about my fun. I
— Alastair Reynolds
You didn't weld it shut or anything like that?""Yes, stupid me, I forgot. — Alastair Reynolds
You look older, son." "Yes, well, some of us have to get on with the business of being alive in the entropic universe.
— Alastair Reynolds
The next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised.
— Alastair Reynolds
At best noise, at worse a potentially damaging input.
— Alastair Reynolds
He watched Carl pouring coffee into a huge mug bearing a photo of a cute corgi, below which was the word Alastair.
— K.C. Wells
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
— Alastair Campbell
It was a mansion of ghosts and monsters, with ghouls in the shadows and demons scuttling behind the wainscotting.
— Alastair Reynolds
I cannot bear to go back alone - to the world I have lived in with you.
— Georgette Heyer
Greg Dyke is on record as saying that once the BBC was attacked, it was their job to defend themselves. But that is not their job.
— Alastair Campbell
Wes is Wes," Alastair said. "One in every family. I love him, but I think of him as a sarcastic pet.
— John Scalzi
Clavain was looking at a hyperpig: a genetic chimera of pig and human.
— Alastair Reynolds
They would continue to live in New Tiamaat, orbiting Crucible.
— Alastair Reynolds
We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a glimpse of what we could have been
— Alastair Reynolds
I am playing in a playground that's already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the furniture in science fiction is second hand.
— Alastair Reynolds
I am disappointed to find myself accused in some papers of supplying the offending sweets, particularly as I am a fruit pastille man.
— Alastair Cook
Surely you can hear him now?
— Alastair Reynolds
Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.
— Alastair Reynolds
I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.
— Alastair Wood
I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.
— Alastair Reynolds
I think I'm highly loveable.
— Alastair Campbell
You do not need to fly to the other side of the planet to find wilderness and beauty.
— Alastair Humphreys
IPL does not allow Pakistani players because they are dangerous.
— Alastair Cook
I don't know who started this thing about being perfect but the sooner we ditch that idea the happier we all will be!
— Alastair Arnott
Rise to the occasion. Roar like a lion.
— Alastair Reynolds
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As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious.
— Alastair Campbell
I think we need to think beyond the issue of absolute risk.
— Alastair Wood
Well," she said, "I see it hasn't got a fuck of a lot better since I was away.
— Alastair Reynolds
Everything ends,' the Master said. 'That's the beauty of it.
— Alastair Reynolds
It's called optimism - but I'm losing the hang of it fast.
— Alastair Reynolds
I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.
— Alastair Campbell
