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![Ray Bradbury](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1445955959i/1630._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.”
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![Douglas Adams](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1616277702i/4._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”
― Mostly Harmless
― Mostly Harmless
![Arthur C. Clarke](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1357191481i/7779._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.”
― Rama II
― Rama II
![Haruki Murakami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615497402i/3354._UX200_CR0,5,200,200_.jpg)
“Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
![Susan Beth Pfeffer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1228492581i/1318._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.”
― Life As We Knew It
― Life As We Knew It
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