Semipermeable Cell Quotes & Sayings

Memory may be mischievous but it is also remarkable, self-cleaning, creative, ultimately as magical as a prediction. — David Schmahmann

Joe looked out of the window again. He had the feeling that outside the window there should have been hover-cars, men in trilby hats and jet packs, spider-webs of passageways spreading out of the distant tops of the towers. There should have been women in silver suits taking in a show at the tri-vids before indulging in a spot of lunch, the kind that came in three-course pills, great big subservient robots trailing behind them. Instead there was a brown man in overalls collecting rubbish with a long stick outside an adult cinema, and the cars were halted, bumper-to-bumper, beside a traffic light that seemed to be stuck permanently on red. There was a siren in the distance. There was the sound of car horns, a door slamming, someone cursing loudly in American English. — Lavie Tidhar

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew. — Gail Godwin

I do not underestimate the difficulty of the challenge that global climate change presents to us. It will take a significant effort and the best talent and technology we have to solve the problem. — Federico Pena

We had a Corsican wine that had great authority and a low price. It was a very Corsican wine and you could dilute it by half with water and still receive its message.
A Moveable Feast — Ernest Hemingway,

Weren't many forms of large-scale protest realistically available to most citizens, but one of them was standing in line when you didn't actually need to. — Ann Leckie