Kage Baker Quotes

• One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.

  Kage Baker

  School, Taught Us, Unnecessary

  Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.244, Macmillan

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• I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.

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  Writing, Technology, Thinking

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• I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.

  Kage Baker

  Fashion, Cutting, Coats

  Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.242, Macmillan

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• Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.

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  Powerful, Color, Culture

  Kage Baker (2012). “Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Train Wrecks of the Silent Screen”, p.121, Tachyon Publications

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• Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know, they get all this neat technology and pass all these humanitarian laws, and then something happens: there's an economic crisis, or science makes some discovery people can't deal with. And boom, people go right back to burning Jews and selling pieces of the true Cross. Don't you ever make the mistake of thinking that mortals want to live in a golden age. They hate thinking.

  Kage Baker

  Mistake, Hate, Technology

  Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.217, Macmillan

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• If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.

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  Tolerance, Comedian, Watches

  Kage Baker (2012). “Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Train Wrecks of the Silent Screen”, p.91, Tachyon Publications

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• Besides, we weren't made to battle villains, because there weren't any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than another; all were flawed, all were equally doomed to suffering, mostly because they couldn't see that they were all alike. Mortals might have been contemptible, true, but not evil entirely. They did enjoy killing one another and frequently came up with ingenious excuses for doing so on a grand scale-religions, economic theories, ethnic pride-but we couldn't condemn them for it, as it was in their mortal natures and they were too stupid to know any better.

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  Stupid, Pride, Race

  Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.51, Macmillan

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• In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

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  Waiting, Corporations, Film

  Kage Baker (2012). “Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Train Wrecks of the Silent Screen”, p.29, Tachyon Publications

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• I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

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  Flying, Keyboards, Devices

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• The leaf that spreads in the light is the only holiness there is. I haven't found holiness in the faiths of mortals, or in their music, not in their dreams: it's out in the open field, with the green rows looking at the sky. I don't know what it is, this holiness: but it's there, and it looks at the sky.
  Probably though this is some conditioning the Company installed to ensure I'd be a good botanist. Well, I grew up into a good one. Damned good.

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  Dream, Light, Sky

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• The 1910 Edison film of Frankenstein was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

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  Technology, Film

  Kage Baker (2012). “Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Train Wrecks of the Silent Screen”, p.17, Tachyon Publications

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• People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.

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  Reality, People, Ignorant

  Kage Baker (2012). “Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Train Wrecks of the Silent Screen”, p.91, Tachyon Publications

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• England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.

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  Kings, Wife, England

  Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.60, Macmillan

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