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"Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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"If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own."
Fantasy


"I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't."
College


"When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life."
Life


"Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on."
Being


"All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up."
Social Workers


"Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!"
People


"The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day."
Work


"I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature."
Time


"I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it."
Reading


"I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction."
Science
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