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"I learn by doing....the same thing over and over and over again countless times."

"The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance."

"I should never be able to fulfill what is,I understand, the first duty of a lecturer-to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever"."

"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."

"Explain it to me."But I couldn't. I'd had to learn it my own way, and so had my mother. Jason would eventually, as well. No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood., If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right."

"Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all. It isn't the tunnel we pass through that matters, it's what emerges on the other side."

"He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind."

"On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!"
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"Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether."


"For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have."


"Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing."


"Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever."


"The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars."


"I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply."


"I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me."
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