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"When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures."
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"Talk to strangers politely. You don't how many of them will become your close companions."
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"Women love with their ears, men with their eyes."
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"We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language."
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"Have more than thou showest Speak less than thou knowest."
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"Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends."
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"If you do not tell me, I don't wish to know."
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"The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter."
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"Words can express true feelings, true emotions and wisdom. It is up to you to use them wisely... Choose your words carefully and express the peacefully!"
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"A word to the wise is infuriating."
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"Be polite in your speeches. Good information rudely communicated will make no positive difference."
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"It makes a great difference to the look of a novel whether its author believes that the world came late into being and continues to come by a creative act of God, or whether he believes that the world and ourselves are the product of a cosmic accident. It makes a great difference to his novel whether he believes that we are created in God's image, or whether he believes we create God in our own. It makes a great difference whether he believes that our wills are free, or bound like those of the other animals."
Religion
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
Art
"Conviction without experience makes for harshness."
Experience
"When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business."
Business
"Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka."
Humor
"The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live."
Creativity
"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."
People
"Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it."
Life
"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."
Old
"I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial."
Will
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