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There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet? — Charles Stross

That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that. — Cal Ripken Jr.

I don't see a huge difference between the African condition and the black American condition. The only real difference is that black Americans live in the richest country on Earth surrounded by a majority white population and are almost entirely disconnected from their original culture and their God-given identity. — Kola Boof

Many people are afraid of running because between 30 to 70 percent (depending on how you measure it) of runners get injured every year. — Daniel Lieberman

You should get a better boyfriend. One with an IQ higher than a turnip. — Robyn Carr

Everybody was strange. In a fit of frustration, she scratched out strange and wrote the word CRACKPOTS in big letters. — Kristin Cashore

Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river. — Jodi Picoult