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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

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

I mean, I do wear a wedding ring and take it off when I shoot. — Henry Ian Cusick

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction. — Frederik Pohl

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

You know, it's a wonder I managed to squeeze into the room what with your giant-assed ego taking up all the space. — Samantha Young

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

That's a good weight ... for a small woman — Dorian Yates

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

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

I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to. — Chic Murray

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

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

Science fiction is the very literature of change. — Frederik Pohl

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

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

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

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

Only you have to keep practicing and remembering. — Frederik Pohl

Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary. — Melanie Laurent

Kiss me again. Let me imagine for a moment that you belong to me. The memory will keep me company in my solitude. — Kirsten Miller

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

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

No Love will remain unfulfilled. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

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

What was that?" "Us," he instantly replied. "Inescapable, unbreakable us. — Melissa Foster

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

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