Stephen Baxter quotes:

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  • [F]olks would better off dipping their heads in a bucket of liquid [nitrogen] and battering them against a tree very very hard than reading Baxter's Titan. It would not surprise me if reading that book causes birth defects.

  • A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.

  • Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches and reach. And who, despite all this, seems pretty sane and beneficent by the standards of most gods. Oh, and who sometimes swears in Tibetan...

  • The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future.Cut loose the past; it is dead weight.Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.

  • Every door I pass is one way. So I may as well look around, and see what there is beyond the next door, and the next.

  • When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.

  • Authority. The antithesis of science.

  • The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.

  • Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science fiction really isn't about the future. It's about change and present-day concerns

  • Every world needed an artist.

  • In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

  • We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man.

  • We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

  • We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.

  • When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.

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