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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

We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not. — Alastair Wood

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

Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology. — Alastair Wood

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

Of course. Life would be tough for a repo man in the starship business. * * * The — Alastair Mayer

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

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

As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway. — Alastair Reynolds