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"Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing."
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"Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing."
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"It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important."
People
"In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better."
Writing
"If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air."
Art
"This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything."
Work
"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."
Truth
"Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time."
Science
"Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them."
People
"For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying."
Life
"Some people obtain fame, others deserve it."
People
"I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer."
Life
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