Vindicated by History/Quotes

"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."

- Jorge Luis Borges, "Dead Men's Dialogue", Dreamtigers

""The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims (1876), Quotation and Originality

"Here’s the good news. Pinkshirts are mostly too intellectually turgid to make a case for the other side, and can rarely resist the temptation to use the soapbox. Great stories, the ones that stand the test of time, are multi-sided grand arguments about the human condition that consist of a combination of character, plot, setting, theme, and genre. Their meaning and their beauty is derived from the way in which those elements combust and resolve. Big ideas, solid craft, and a compelling narrative will always triumph in the end over political agitprop."

- Pink Shirt Propaganda vs. Blue SF/F Storytelling by Scooter