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"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."
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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."
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"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."
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"Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas."
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"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."
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"Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that."
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"I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides."
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"Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out."
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"Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible."
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"This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them."
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"I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage."
Being
"Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to."
Life
"I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write."
Energy
"I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need."
Religion
"I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom."
Freedom
"Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims."
People
"But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible."
Love
"I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio."
Talent
"I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff."
Life
"Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there."
Living
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