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Кэтлин Ребека Кирнан — американская писательница. Пишет в жанрах научной фантастики и темной фэнтези.

В России наиболее известна по написанному по мотивам эпической поэмы «Беовульф» роману «Беовульф». Wikipedia  

✵ 26. Май 1964
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“A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be.”

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Caitlín R. Kiernan

7 January 2007
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2007

“A writer who does not write is nothing. One may as well be a fisherman who doesn't fish, a stripper who doesn't strip, or a beggar who doesn't beg.”

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Caitlín R. Kiernan

7 December 2004
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2004

“I pondered exactly how future biographers would go about writing the biographies of authors without letters. It's not like email and "chat" and whatnot will fill the void. Online journals help a little, but they are not, generally, the truly honest sorts of things that letters were, and only a few authors keep them. I tried for years to keep up letter writing, but was defeated in the end by too many unreliable correspondents.”

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Caitlín R. Kiernan

27 June 2007
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2007

“The divine is always abominable.”

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Caitlín R. Kiernan

Houses Under the Sea (2007)

“We are indeed living at the end of the Golden Age of Mankind, or at least the end of this particular human civilization. That almost everything we take for granted today may, only a couple of decades farther along, seem entirely remarkable, that our most mundane artefacts and toys will stand as incredible examples of luxury and excess. That all of this will pass away, and the "simplest" bits of our day-to-day lives will become miracles of a half-remembered past. A past which will be responsible for that future-present misery. It is difficult to force myself through the trivial routine of my days when these thoughts are front and center. It is difficult to see beyond the veil they draw up about me and difficult to push it all aside long enough to write my silly little stories.”

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Caitlín R. Kiernan

29 March 2007
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2007

“Orpheus' mistake wasn't that he turned and looked back towards Eurydice and Hell, but that he ever thought he could escape. Same with Lot's wife. Averting our eyes does not change the fact that we are marked.”

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Caitlín R. Kiernan

Houses Under the Sea (2007)

“Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.”

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Caitlín R. Kiernan

24 July 2005
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2005

“On our present course, this may eventually stand as the ultimate achievement of Homo sapiens sapiens. We should take a bow. We are obviously planet killers. The question is, can we also be planet saviors? I'd say that seems unlikely. Happy Earth Day.”

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Caitlín R. Kiernan

(22 April 2004)
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2004

“Magick may be no more than the willful invocation of awe.”

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Caitlín R. Kiernan

11 December 2006
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2006

“To paraphrase Truman Capote, finishing a novel is like taking a child out behind the house and shooting it. To which I would hasten to add, that makes critics a bit like stranger who come along later to piss on the corpse.”

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Caitlín R. Kiernan

Trilobite: The Writing of Threshold (2003)

“I sincerely hope I'm not as big a fool as that. Whatever else I may be, I like to think that I'm not an idiot.”

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Caitlín R. Kiernan

Houses Under the Sea (2007)

“Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.”

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Caitlín R. Kiernan

16 January 2005
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2005

“And speaking of Massachusetts, I just heard on CNN that the first human cloning has been successfully performed there. I'm not inherently opposed to the idea of cloning humans (or anything else), but I have to question the need for any technology that produces more of us. Making babies is about the only thing for which our species seems to display a more or less universal talent. We hardly need any help.”

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Caitlín R. Kiernan

26 November 2001
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2001

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.”

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Caitlín R. Kiernan

12 December 2010
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2010

“Give me enough words, enough attendant gravity, and I might fall into myself forever, crushed infinitely flat by my own hubris. It'd be a neat trick, I admit. I'd pay to see it — but from a safe distance, of course.”

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Caitlín R. Kiernan

To Charles Fort, With Love (2005)