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Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from. If there has never been conflict, imagination never

Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from. If there has never been conflict, imagination never develops. Wits arise in answer to danger, to pain, to tragedy. No one ever got smarter eating easy apples.

Sheri S. Tepper
Pain, Apples, Imagination
Sheri S. Tepper (2013). “Sheri S Tepper SF Gateway Omnibus: After Long Silence, Shadow's End, Six Moon Dance”, p.900, Hachette UK

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.

Sheri S. Tepper
Definitions, Orthodoxy, Open Minded
"The Visitor". Book by Sheri S. Tepper, 2002.

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

Sheri S. Tepper
Science, Views, Long
"Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe". www.locusmag.com. September 1998.

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

Sheri S. Tepper
Book, Writing, Responsibility

Sitting down and weeping is what women have done for centuries, and it has done no good at all. Nor praying. God has given us the earth. He is not waiting in the next room, ready to fix it for us if we ruin it. If we do not care for it, no one will. On other worlds, other races of men perhaps do better than we have done. He cares for us, but he does not control what we do.

Sheri S. Tepper
Men, Race, Other Worlds

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

Sheri S. Tepper
Science, Ideas, Fiction

The expression of divinity is in variety.

Sheri S. Tepper
Expression, Divinity, Variety
"Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe". Locus Magazine Interview, www.locusmag.com. September 1998.

Do you realize it’s been only a century that we’ve been able to go from house to car to office to car to wherever, with the heater on, and the defroster on, protected from the rain and the cold? It hasn’t been much longer than that we’ve had lighting for streets. Think of all that darkness, all that world out there, all that mystery that we’ve turned into well-lighted concrete bunkers, safe and warm and dull.

Sheri S. Tepper
Rain, Thinking, Car

The Regime has become so smug it can't tell the difference among the revolutionary, the innovative, or the merely various. The high command knows so little about the outside that if I came back with a fully equipped chemical laboratory and told them I'd found it in a cave, they'd probably believe that, so long as I brought it back piecemeal in my saddle bags, thus proving I hadn't known it was there beforehand.

Sheri S. Tepper
Believe, Differences, Long
"The Visitor". Book by Sheri S. Tepper, 2002.

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