| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 18523 |
| QUOTATION: | In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn’t developed space travel were mere prehistory—horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene—and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941), U.S. author, columnist. “Blocking the Gates to Heaven,” The Worst Years of Our Lives (1986, repr. 1991). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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